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Christ Walking on the Water

Christ Walking on the Water

ca. 1740

Alessandro Magnasco

Italian, 1677-1749

Oil on canvas
14 1/2 x 14 7/8 in. (36.8 x 37.8 cm)
Gift of Douglas J. Stimson, Thomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection
50.80
Provenance: (Said to be from collection of Count Marenzi?); Professor Loverini-Ponziano collection, Bergamo, by 1923 - 1950; [Jacob Heimann, Beverly Hills, California]; purchased from Heimann by Seattle Art Museum (funds from Douglas J. Stimson, in name of Thomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection), March 23, 1950
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryMilan, Mostra degli Amici dell'Arte and Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1922, no. 651 (if Ponziano Loverini)

San Francisco, California, "Golden Gate International Exposition," 1940

Baltimore, Maryland, "Giorgione and His Circle," 1942

Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum of Art, "Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749)," 1967 (traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art)
Published Referencesd'Ancona, Paolo. "Alessandro Magnasco detto il Lissandrino (1667-1749)," in Dedalo, Vol. 2, 1922-1923, illus. p. 436 (Ponziano Loverini)

Geiger, Benno. 1923, no. 102, pl. 20 (Ponziano Loverini)

Nugent, M. 1925, p. 353

Delogu, Guiseppe. "Pittori minori liguri Lompardi Piemontesi del Seicento e del Settecento." Venice: Stamperia Editrice Zanetti, 1931, p. 111, illus. pl. 163 (Ponziano Loverini)

Geiger, Benno. "Magnasco." Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1949, pp. 71 (Ponziano Loverini), 122 (Heimann)

"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 124 (b&w)

Grigaut, Paul L. "Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749)" exhibition catalogue." Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Museum of Art, in association with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1967

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Zeri, Federico. "Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972, p. 116

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