Alessandro Magnasco
Italian, 1667-1749
Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin
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Alessandro Magnasco
Italian, 1667-17491720/25
Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin
Alessandro Magnasco Italian, 1667-1749 →ink or chalk washdrawings (visual works)
Date
1720/25
Medium
Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)
Dimensions
46.6 × 37 cm (18 3/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Helen Regenstein Collection
A Genoese artist who worked mostly in Milan, Alessandro Magnasco epitomizes the transition between 17th- and 18th-century art in northern Italy. Rarely did his highly individual style find such expression as in this drawing, in which reddish-brown chalk wash heightened with white approximates the agitated strokes of the heavily applied impasto in his oil paintings.
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