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| Keywords: Landscape with Figures by Magnasco and Peruzzini.jpg artwork Q18545686 en Landscape with Figures by Alessandro Magnasco/Lissandrino and Antonio Francesco Peruzzini about 1713-14 institution Birmingham Museum of Art http //www artsbma org/pieces/landscape-with-figures/1961-3669/ creator Alessandro Magnasco Alessandro Magnasco called Lissandrino Italy Genoa 1667 - 1749 Genoa and Antonio Francesco Peruzzini Italy Venice 1668 - after 1706 oil on canvas circa 1713 /1714 57 3/8 x 45 7/8 in 145 7 x 116 5 cm frame 64 x 53 in 162 6 x 134 6 cm Accession number 1961 110 Credit Line Gift of the Samuel H Kress Foundation Provenance Gallery Sambon Paris Italico Brass 1870-1943 Venice by 1923 probably sold to or through; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi Florence sold 1937 to; Samuel H Kress New York K1114 gift 1961 to; Birmingham Museum of Art 1 The painting has been relined with a new stretcher In the right upper corner of the new stretcher is written in pencil 9359F The backing has a NGA label 476 year 1939 Written in white chalk on the backing NG 476 and +111+/ gal 33/ N-wall 2 Arthur Sambon born 1867 died by 1951 when his estate was sold in New York He was the major dealer of works by Magnasco active in Paris 3 In 1949 Benno Geiger Magnasco Bergamo 1949 p 153 pl 47 noted that the painting had been in the Kress collection since 1939 and previously in a private collection Venice On page 145 he includes the BMA painting as Paese con pellegrini e lavandare in a long list of works by Magnasco in a private collection Venice Four years earlier Benno Geiger Saggio d'un catalogo delle pitture di Alessandro Magnasco 1667-1749 Venice 1945 p 75 had identified the same list as the collection of Italico Brass Venice This and two other paintings individually listed as related to each other in 1945 were already in the collection of Italico Brass in 1923 when they appeared as nos 224-226 Drei Landschaften mit Wascherinnen Pilgern und Figuren Große Hochbilder in Benno Geiger Alessandro Magnasco Vienna 1923 p 56 Italico Brass was an artist who was a friend of Geiger and passionate about Magnasco Born in Austria he was a student of K Raupp at Munich Academy and of Bougereau and J P Laurens in Paris He was awarded an Honorable Mention at the Salon des Artists Française 1894 and was included in the Exposition de Bruxelles 1910 He worked for many years in Venice 4 On loan to National Gallery of Art Washington 1941-52; on loan to the Birmingham Museum of Art 1952 until presented as a gift in 1961 Report by Amy Walsh 3/20/06 other versions PD-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Alessandro Magnasco Italian paintings in the Birmingham Museum of Art Antonio Francesco Peruzzini | ||||
