{"data": {"id": 144255, "accession_number": "1969.1", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "The Oath of Abraham\u2019s Servant, c. 1650\u201359. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609\u20131664). Oil on canvas; framed: 71.2 x 94 x 9 cm (28 1/16 x 37 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 56 x 78.4 cm (22 1/16 x 30 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1969.1", "current_location": null, "title": "The Oath of Abraham\u2019s Servant", "creation_date": "c. 1650\u201359", "creation_date_earliest": 1650, "creation_date_latest": 1659, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Italy, 17th century"], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "P - Italian 16th & 17th Century", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Framed: 71.2 x 94 x 9 cm (28 1/16 x 37 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 56 x 78.4 cm (22 1/16 x 30 7/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"framed": {"height": 0.712, "height_inch": 28, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.94, "width_inch": 37, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0, "depth": 0.09, "depth_inch": 3, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5625}, "unframed": {"height": 0.56, "height_inch": 22, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.784, "width_inch": 30, "width_inch_fraction": 0.875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301313, "title": "Year in Review: 1969", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).", "opening_date": "1970-01-27T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "[Pinakos, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1969", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The musical instrument at the left symbolizes love, foreshadowing the wedding the servant pledges to facilitate.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This work has long been called <em>Journey of a Patriarch</em> in the belief that the artist intended no specific subject. The painting instead depicts a moment in the Old Testament book of Genesis. Abraham secures a pledge from his servant to find a wife for Abraham\u2019s son Isaac. The servant wears a <em>zamt</em>, a goatskin cap common in North Africa in the 1600s, here dyed an unusual shade of blue, a color associated with faith and trust, symbolizing his sacred oath.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60470179"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1969.1-the-oath-of-abrahams"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Durn, Tamara. \"The subject of G.B. Castiglione's <em>Journey of a Patriarch </em>identified?\" Essay, Case Western Reserve University.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Richards, Louise S. \u201cA Painting and Two Drawings by Castiglione.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 8 (November 1970): 272\u2013280. <br>Published as: <em>Journey of a Patriarch</em>", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 272\u201376, figs. 1 and  2", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152344"}, {"citation": "Percy, Ann. <em>Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque</em>. 1971.", "page_number": "p. 40", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Louise d' Argencourt, and Roger Diederen. <em>Catalogue of Paintings</em>. Vol. III: <em>European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.", "page_number": "pp. 326\u201327", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 141", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n161"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art.<em> The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 326; Reproduced: p. 327", "url": null}, {"citation": "Schloder, John E. <em>Baroque Imagery</em>. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984.", "page_number": "pp. 15, 81", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Goldfarb, Hilliard T. \u201cBoucher\u2019s \u2018Pastoral Scene with Family at Rest\u2019 and the Image of the Pastoral in Eighteenth-Century France.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 3 (March 1984): 82\u20139.<br>Published as: <em>Journey of a Patriarch</em>", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 84\u20135, fig. 7", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159852"}, {"citation": "Dillon, Gianvittorio. <em>Il Grechetto: il genio di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione</em>. Genova: Sagep, 1990.", "page_number": "p. 133", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Duffin, Ross. <em>RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography</em>. Vol. 8. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1991.", "page_number": "no. 176, pp. 9, 37", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Chong, Alan. <em>European &amp; American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. 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