Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005738Study Sheet with Seated Figures
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper left, in brush and brown wash: "26."; above each figure (except upper center), in pen and brown ink: "2" or "3"; lower right, in black chalk: "2"; upper center, in black chalk: "+"
Provenance
Baron Hatvany, London [letter in curatorial files]. Herbert Bier, London [letter in curatorial files]. Sold by Robert M. Light, Boston, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 3, 1968 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime: Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 20. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 61, cat. 34 (ill.).
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, 1657-1749
- Date
- 1705/15
- Medium
- Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with touches of black chalk, on tan laid paper with brown fibers, laid down on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 29.6 × 42.5 cm (11 11/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- brush and ink
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1998.109
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