The Baptism of Christ

1720s

Alessandro Magnasco

Artist, Italian, 1667 - 1749

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on buff laid paper

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30.6 × 22.2 cm (12 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
    mount: 32.9 × 22.9 cm (12 15/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.165.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Santo Varni [1807 - 1885], Genoa (Lugt 3531), no. 17. Private collection, Genoa; Art market, Milan; (Stanza del Borgo, Milan, by 2013); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2013

  • Bareggi, Silvana. Incisioni e Disegni di Maestri antichi e moderni dal XVI al XX secolo. Old Master and Modern Prints and Drawings from the XVIth to the XXth Century. Stanza del Borgo, Milan, 2013: 104-105, no. 9 (color).

2019

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 29.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left in brown ink: H.11.I; by later hand in brown ink, lower left on mount: Magnaschino; by another hand to the right in light brown ink, No 17 Collezione Santo Varni.; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: [undeciphered] / G. 58 / 49 (circled); in red pencil: L 10 (crossed out)

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