Christ at the Sea of Galilee
c. 1740
Artist, Italian, 1667 - 1749


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 30
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 118.1 x 146.7 cm (46 1/2 x 57 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1943.4.31
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Arthur Sambon, Paris). Benno Geiger [1882-1965], Vienna. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence) by 1929;[1] purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA.
[1] In Alessandro Magnasco, Exh. cat. Galerie Sambon, Paris, 1929, the painting is cited as in the Contini collection, but not exhibited.
[2] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/507.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1940
Golden Gate International Exposition, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1940, no. 161.
Paintings by Alessandro Magnasco, Durlacher Brothers, New York, 1940, no. 1.
1996
Alessandro Magnasco 1667-1749, Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1996, no. 43, repro.
Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 119, no. 532, as Christ Calling Saint Peter.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 250, repro. 142, as Christ Calling Saint Peter.
1943
Morandotti, Alessandro. Cinque pittori del settecento. Rome, 1943: 71.
1945
Geiger, Benno. Saggio d'un catalogo delle pitture di Alessandro Magnasco. Venice, 1945: 88.
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 141, repro., as Christ Calling Saint Peter.
1947
Evans, Grose. "The Subtle Satire of Magnasco." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th ser., 32 (1947): 42, figs. 1, 3.
1949
Geiger, Benno. Magnasco. Bergamo, 1949: 87, 152-153.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 103-105, repro., as Christ Calling Saint Peter.
1962
De Logu, Giuseppe. La natura morta italiana. Bergamo, 1962: 126.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 81.
1966
Dürst, Hans. Alessandro Magnasco. Teufen, 1966: 24, 104, fig. 31.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 71, repro.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 117.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 112, fig. 211.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 208, repro.
1977
Franchini Guelfi, Fausta. Alessandro Magnasco. Genoa, 1977: 132-134, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:293-295; 2:pl. 208.
1984
Grigoriva, Irina, and Asja Kantor-Gukouskja. I grandi disegni italiani delle collezioni dell'Ermitage di Leningrado. Milan, 1984: cat. 59.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 344, no. 468, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 241, repro.
1991
Franchini Guelfi, Fausta. Alessandro Magnasco. Soncino, 1991: 24.
1994
Muti, Laura. Alessandro Magnasco. Faenza, 1994: 267, nos. 390, 391 (repro.), as by Magnasco and Peruzzini.
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: 178-184, color repro. 181.
Wikidata ID
Q20177925