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AT-00001177The Synagogue
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.
Publications
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. Cleveland Museum of Art, European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries (Cleveland, 1972), pp. 374-376, no. 165. Laura Muti and Daniele de Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco (Ravenna, 1994), cat. no. 43, fig. 294. Milan, Palazzo Reale, Alessandro Magnasco, 1667-1749, exh. cat. 1996, pp. 194, 200, 202 (ill.). Maria Rosa Montiani Bensi, "Iconografie ebraiche e protestanti nella pittura di Alessandro Magnasco,” Studi di storia delle arti 9 (1997–1999), p. 205.
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. 1730
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 119.4 × 149.8 cm (47 × 58 15/16 in.); Framed: 132.8 × 163.4 × 12.1 cm (52 1/4 × 64 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1949.586
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