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    Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin
    Alessandro Magnasco. Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin, 1720/25. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002260

    Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin

    by Alessandro Magnasco

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    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.

    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.

    Publications

    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.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Alessandro Magnasco / Italian, 1667-1749
    Date
    1720/25
    Medium
    Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)
    Dimensions
    46.6 × 37 cm (18 3/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink or chalk wash
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helen Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1962.585

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