The Synagogue

1. Arthur Sambon, Paris, 1929 [according to Paris 1926, suppl. no 24]. Bessand, Paris, by 1931. [according to Delogu, 1931, p. 124]; bought by Italico Brass (d. 1943), Venice, by c. 1932 [see letter by from his grandson, Italico Brass Jr. to Henry Clifford, Philadelphia Museum of Art, regarding the provenance of the pendant, The Catechism in the Cathedralof Milan; copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his son Alessandro Brass [see 19 November 1949 letter from Alessandro Brass to Daniel Catton Rich in curatorial file]; sold by Alessandro Brass to the Art Institute, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galerie Sambon, Alessandro Magnasco, catalogue des oeuvres de ce maitre exposeés a la Galerie Sambon, 22 May - 12 June 1929, suppl. no. 24, pl. 2.
• Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Cinque pittori del settecento - Ghislandi, Crespi, Magnasco, Bazzani, Ceruti, April 1943, p. 62-63, no. 41 (ill.).
• Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Trends in Painting 1600-1800, 2 October - 3 November 1957, p. 42, 43 (ill.).
• Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Let There Be Light, 11 March - 26 April 1964, no. 210.

• Emile Bernard, "Alexandre Magnasco," L'Amour de l'Art 10 (October 1929) p. 345 (ill.)
• Giuseppe Delogu, Pittori minori liguri lombardi piemontesi del seicento e del settecento (Venice, 1931), p. 81, 87, 124, 268, fig. 123.
• Maria Popisil, Magnasco (Florence, 1944), pp. XXXVII, LXXXV, pl. 154-157.
• Benno Geiger, Magnasco (Bergamo, 1949), pp.146-147, 188, cat. no. 199, 200 (detail).
• AIC Bulletin 44, (15 November 1950), p. 62.
• "Recent Acquisitions," Pictures on Exhibit 12 (January 1950) p. 44.
• An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1956), p. 26.
• Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961) pp. 55 (ill.), 265-266.
• Leo Bruhns, Franz G. W. Metternich, Ludwig Schudt, Miscellanea Bibliothecae Herzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 518.
• Rodolfo Pallucchini, "L'Art Institute di Chicago," L'Illustrazione del Medico 212 (1966), p. 12, fig. 3.
• Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 115, 507, 571.
• Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco (Genoa, 1977), pp. 218, 226, fig. 240.

The Tame Magpie

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nuns at Work

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Shepherd Addressing a Seated Male Nude

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Standing Pilgrim Friar

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saint Paul of Thebes tempted by a demon, after Magnasco

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jar

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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