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Two Monks in a Landscape
Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, Genoese, 1667–1749)
Title
Two Monks in a Landscape
Artist
Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, Genoese, 1667–1749)
Date
c. 1710–35
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
38 3/4 × 28 3/4 in. (98.4 × 73 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
1957.16
On View
On view
Provenance
The Royal Family of Bavaria, Wittelsbach.
With M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, by January 2, 1957;
Their sale to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1957.
Exhibition History
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 3, 1957.
Baroque Art: An Era of Elegance, Denver Art Museum, October 3–November 15, 1971.
Published References
Favorite Italian and Spanish Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Baroque Era (Winnipeg, Canada: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1951), no. 13.
Dorothy Burgess, “Magnasco Reached Height with the Fanciful,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, March 8, 1962, 34, (repro.).
Baroque Art: Era of Elegance (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1971), 32, (repro.).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 116.
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 47–59, (repro.).
Sheldon Grossman, “Allesandro Magnasco,” Currier Gallery of Art Bulletin (1989).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 104–105, (repro.).
