Object number2002.43.3

Cantastorie

DateNd

follower of Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)

CultureItalian

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsSight: 15 3/4 x 12 in. (40.01 x 30.48 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mary Bernald, in memory of Eugene Bernald, father of Mary Ann Bernald, class of 1963 and grandfather of Justin K. Lowe, class of 2007

On View

Not on view

Period17th c / 18th c

Classification(s)

Painting

MarkingsOn verso of stretcher: 1. Paper label reading: Illustrated in Benno Geiger’s “Magnasco” No. 164/ Enciclopedia Della Pittura Italiano by Ugo Galletti, Page 1506./ “A. Magnasco’” by Maria Pospisil/ “Mostra del Magnasco” by Antonio Morassi; 2. Paper label reading: Cantastorie, Venezia, coll. Gatti-Casazza; 3. Stenciled: 797 RH.

BibliographyGeiger, Benno, Alessandro Magnasco (Vienna: Krystall-Verlag Ges. M.B.H., 1923), p.52, repr. Tafel 28; Magnasco (Bergamo: Instituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche, 1949); Mostra del ‘700 italiano [This may not be the exact title of the catalog] (Venice, 1929), no. 23; Moschini, Vittorio, La Pittura Italiana del Settecento (Florence: Alfani e Venturi, 1931), p. 27-8, repr. fig. 33.; Fogolari, Gino, Il Settecento Italiano (Milano: Edizioni Bestetti & Tumminelli, 1932), Fig. 82 repr. as “Pulcinella Suonatore di Chitarra.”; Morassi, Antonio, Mostra del Magnasco (Bergamo: Instituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche, 1949), p. 26, repr. fig. 6. ProvenanceBrass Collection,Venice (see Geiger, 1923 and Morassi, 1949);
Gatti-Casazza Collection, Venice by 1931 (see Moschini, 1931);
Mary Bernald, Ossining, NY; given 2002 to FLLAC, Vassar College.
Exhibition HistoryVenice, “Mostra del ‘700 italiano a Venezia,” 1929. Cat. no. 23. (See Morassi, 1949);
Genova, Palazzo Bianco, “Mostra del Magnasco,” June 18-October 15, 1949. Cat. no. 6, repr.

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