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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.431
People
Attributed to Alessandro Magnasco, Italian (1667 - 1749)
Title
Monks in a Grotto
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian, Ligurian, Genoese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231618

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69.8 x 54 cm (27 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Friends of the Fogg Art Museum through the generosity of Miss Ethel Forbes, Edward W. Forbes, and Miss Emily McKibbin
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.431
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arthur McComb, The Baroque Painters of Italy: An Introductory Historical Survey, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1934), pp. 91, 125, repr. as fig 94
  • Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 86, repr.
  • Winifred Muller, "Magnasco, A Unique Artist's First American Show at Springfield", ARTnews (January 22, 1938), vol. 37, repr. p. 11
  • Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1677-c.1749, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield (Springfield, MA, 1938), cat. 11
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 115
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 117, 355, repr. b/w cat. no. 764

Exhibition History

  • Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1677-c. 1749, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 01/12/1938 - 02/06/1938
  • Contrasts in Impressionism: an exhibition of paintings by Alessandro Magnasco, Claude Monet [and] John Marin, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 11/13/1942 - 12/27/1942

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