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Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie
Alessandro Magnasco · 1720/25
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 24, 1955, lot 132. 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, n.p., cat. 13.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 12-13, cat. 3 (ill.), by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," December 1979-March 1980, cat. 94, 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. 40, cat. 9 (ill.), by Martha Tedeschi.
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, "Alessandro Magnasco 1667-1749," March 21-July 7, 1996, p. 284, cat. 92 (ill.).
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800," April 23-July 10, 1996, p. 76, cat. 87 (ill.).
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.
- Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 68, no. 94, pl. 102.
- Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1D7.
- Fausta Franchini Guelfi, "'Le ‘Macchiette’ e 'I Pensieri' di Alessandro Magnasco," Disegni Genovesi dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Giornate di Studio, May 9-10, 1989 (Florence, 1992), pp. 238-239, fig. 9.
- Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco: I Disegni (Genoa, 1999), no. 33, pp. 138-139, figs. 104-5.
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