Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin by Alessandro Magnasco
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Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin

Alessandro Magnasco · 1720/25

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 24, 1955, lot 131. Otto Wertheimer, Paris [Joachim 1980]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 12.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 10-11, cat. 2 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings from American Collections: 15th–18th Centuries," April 29-June 13, 1976, p. 110, cat. 131, by Ebria Feinblatt.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," December 1979-March 1980, cat. 95, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, p. 41, cat. 10 (ill.), by Martha Tedeschi.
  • Milan, Palazzo Reale, "Alessandro Magnasco 1667-1749," March 21-July 7, 1996, p. 286, cat. 93 (ill.), by Mary Newcome, et al..
  • New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800," April 23-July 10, 1996, p. 77, cat. 88 (ill.), by Carmen Bambach and Nadine M. Orenstein.

Literature

Published references

  • Janos Scholz, "Drawings by Alessandro Magnasco," Essays in the History of Art Presented to Rudolf Wittkower (London, 1967), p. 239.
  • Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco (Genoa, 1977), pp. 219 and 225, fig. 251.
  • Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 68, no. 95, pl. 101.
  • Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1D8.
  • Fausta Franchini Guelfi, "'Le ‘Macchiette’ e 'I Pensieri' di Alessandro Magnasco," Disegni Genovesi dal Cinquecento al Settecento (Florence, 1989), p. 238.
  • Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco: I disegni (Genoa, 1999), p. 136, no. 32, fig. 103.

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