1930.431: Monks in a Grotto
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1930.431
- People
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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
- Permissions
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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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