
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000636Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose
Provenance
Julius H. Weitzner, New York, by 1958 [in his possession when published by Longhi 1958]; sold to the Art Institute, 1961.
Exhibition history
Chicago, Art Institute, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism, September 19–November 1, 1970, cat. 9, ill. p. 35, traveled to Minneapolis, Institute of Art, November 24, 1970–January 10, 1971; Toledo, Museum of Art, February 7–March 21, 1971. Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Kunst in der Republik Genua, 1528–1815, August 29–November 9, 1992, cat. 108, p. 201, ill.
Publications
Robert Longhi, “Antologia di artisti: Un tema ambrosiano dal Magnasco,” Paragone 9 (May 1958), pp. 70–71, figs. 47, 48. The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1960/61, Chicago, 1961, p. 11. J[ohn] M[axon], “A New Painting by Magnasco,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 55 (1961), p. 50, ill. pp. 50–51. Renato Roli, Alessandro Magnasco, I Maestri del colore, 59, Milan, 1964, n.p. Anthony M. Clark, Review of Chicago, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rocco to Romanticism, in The Art Quarterly 33 (1970), p. 417. Rodolfo Pallucchini, Review of Chicago, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rocco to Romanticism, in Arte veneta 24 (1970), pp. 291-3. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 115, 368, 571. A[ndor] Pigler, Barockthemen, eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Budapest, 1974, vol. 1, p. 414. Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco, Genoa, 1977, pp. 48–50, figs. 43, 44. Fausta Franchini Guelfi, “Un disegno inedito di Alessandro Magnasco nelle collezioni di Palazzo Rosso,” Bollettino dei Musei Civici Genovesi 7, no. 19/21 (1985), pp. 29-30, fig. 2. Fausta Franchini Guelfi, “Alessandro Magnasco” in La pittura a Genova e in Liguria dal Seicento al primo Novecento, Genoa, 1987, p. 332, fig. 294. Jean K. Cadogan, ed., Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings II: Italy and Spain Fourtheenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Hartford, 1991), p. 175, fig. 30. Laura Muti and Daniele de Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco, Ravenna, 1994, pp. 57–60, 95, no. 44, figs. 54, 55 pls. 4 and 5. Elizabeth Howard, The Art of Alessandro Magnasco: An Essay in the Recovery of Meaning, Florence, 1994, pp. 64, 135. Fausta Franchini Guelfi, “Alessandro Magnasco” in Dictionary of Art, London, 1996, vol. 20, p. 95. Marco Bona Castellotti, "Il 'caso' Magnasco: ragioni di una mostra," in Alessandro Magnasco 1667–1749, exh. cat. Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1996, pp. 15 (ill.), 16.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667–1749)
- Date
- c. 1705
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 155.3 × 213.5 cm (61 1/8 × 84 1/16 in.); Framed: 189.9 × 248.3 cm (74 3/4 × 97 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Clyde M. Carr Fund
- Accession no.
- 1961.43
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