Two Figures Heavily Burdened

Artist Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667 - 1749)

Date16th century

MediumSepia wash

DimensionsOverall: 5 7/8 × 5 inches (14.92 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number46-12

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings: American Federation of Arts Exhibition, September 1949.

Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749), J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, February 2-March 26, 1967; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, April 19-May 13, 1967, no. 42.

Provenance

Dr. Benno Geiger (1882-1965), Venice;

With Schaeffer Galleries, New York, by May 9, 1946;

Purchased from Schaeffer Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

Published References

Benno Geiger, I disegni del Magnasco (Padua, Italy: Le Tre Venezie, 1945), (repro.).

Winslow Ames, “Old Master Drawings: Descriptive Material,” National Exhibition Service, no. 445 (October 1949).

Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749), exh. cat. (Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1967), unpaginated, (repro.).

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