The Choristers

c. 1740/1745

Alessandro Magnasco

Artist, Italian, 1667 - 1749

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 30

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Emily Floyd Gardiner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 68 x 54.5 cm (26 3/4 x 21 7/16 in.)
    framed: 91.4 x 78.1 cm (36 x 30 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1972.17.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Rolfe, who brought it to America from England before 1825;[1] by descent in the Rolfe family to Emily Floyd Gardiner [Mrs. Arthur Z. Gardiner], McLean, Virginia; gift 1972 to NGA.
[1] According to a memorandum from H. Lester Cooke to Charles Parkhurst 3 April 1972, NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Il Gran Teatro del Mondo: L'Anima e il Volto del Settecento, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2003-2004, no. II.35, repro.

Bibliography

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 208, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:295-296; 2:pl. 209.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 241, repro.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 184-188, color repro. 185.

Wikidata ID

Q20177922

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