A Penitent at a Quaker Sermon

c. 1710-1720

Alessandro Magnasco

Associated Names
Alessandro Magnasco

Artist, Italian, 1667 - 1749

This is a painting featuring multiple figures and objects. The image depicts figures intertwined in an interior space. There is a use of chiaroscuro, with light highlighting certain figures. The setting includes wooden stools and an urn in the background, implying a classical or historical context. Various forms and outlines in the painting hint at fabrics and textures, creating an aged texture. This is in the style of Peter Paul Rubens.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and brown wash with white heightening on paper washed gray brown

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 32.5 × 24.1 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.78.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Mantua; Marelli collection, Bergamo; Stephen Spector, New York; David Daniels, New York; his sale, Sotheby's London, 25 April 1978, lot 27; private collection, Florence; (Galleria Lapiccirella, Florence); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • Genoese Masters, Cambiaso to Magnasco, 1550-1750, Dayton, Dayton Art Institute; Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1962-1963, no. 87.

1966

  • Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Drawings, NGA and nine additional venues, American Federation of Arts, circulating exhibition, 1966-1967, no. 25.

1968

  • Loan Exhibition of Drawings from the Daniels Collection, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Art institute of Chicago; Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1968, no. 14.

2020

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 125 (Washington venue canceled).

2021

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 [canceled for National Gallery of Art venue], Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2021 - 2022, no. 125.

Bibliography

1949

  • Geiger, Benno. Magnasco. Bergamo, 1949, pl. 189.

2013

  • Lapiccirella, Damiano, and Francesca Antonacci,Collezionando II: Master Drawings.Florence, 2013, cat. 7.

2020

  • Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 348, no. 125.

Inscriptions

by later hand, verso center, in graphite: Geiger, pl 189.

Wikidata ID

Q64534031

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