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Christ Walking on the Water
Christ Walking on the Water

Christ Walking on the Water

Dateca. 1740
Attributed to Alessandro Magnasco Italian, 1677-1749
Object number50.80
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
Exhibition HistoryFlorence, Palazzo Pitti, Mostra Della Pittura Italiana del Sei e Settecento in Palazzo Pitti, 1922 (Milan, Mostra degli Amici dell'Arte), text by Nello Tarchiani et al.; p.123, no. 651 (collection of Ponziano Loverini). San Francisco, California, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940. Baltimore, Maryland, John Hopkins University, Giorgione and His Circle, February 23 - March 21, 1942. Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Italian Baroque Painting: 17th and 18th Centuries, 1947. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Art, February 8 - March 5, 1950. Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, Old Masters: Baroque Paintings, April 16 - May 4, 1952. Tacoma, Washington, The Broadway Gallery, Old Master Paintings, 1958. Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum of Art, Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749), February 2 - March 26, 1967 (Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, April 19 - May 13, 1967); no. 4.Published Referencesd'Ancona, Paolo. "Alessandro Magnasco detto il Lissandrino (1667-1749)," in Dedalo, Vol. 2, 1922-1923, illus. p. 436 (Ponziano Loverini). Geiger, Benno. Alessandro Magnasco. Vienna: Krystall-Verlag Ges. M.B.H., 1923; no. 102, pl. 20 (Ponziano Loverini). Nugent, Margherita. Alla mostra della pittura italiana del '600 e '700: note e impressioni. San Casciano, Val di Pesa: Società editrice Toscana, 1925, vol. 1, 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), exh. cat. Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Museum of Art, in association with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1967, no. 4. 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.
Credit LineGift of Douglas J. Stimson, Thomas D. Stimson Memorial Collection
Dimensions14 1/2 x 14 7/8 in. (36.8 x 37.8 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
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