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Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin
Alessandro MagnascoLinkedCulture matchlcp-0408de3c05dc
- Date
- 1720/25
- Medium
- Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 14797
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
A Genoese artist who worked mostly in Milan, Alessandro Magnasco epitomizes the transition between 17th- and 18th-century art in northern Italy. Rarely did his highly individual style find such expression as in this drawing, in which reddish-brown chalk wash heightened with white approximates the agitated strokes of the heavily applied impasto in his oil paintings.
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- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Provenance
- Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 24, 1955, lot 131. Otto Wertheimer, Paris [Joachim 1980]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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