About This Artwork
Alessandro Magnasco
Italian, 1657-1749
Study Sheet with Seated Figures1705/15
Brush and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with touches of black chalk, on tan laid paper with brown fibers, laid down on off-white laid paper
296 x 425 mm
Inscribed recto, upper left, in brush and brown wash: "26."; above each figure (except upper center), in pen and brown ink: "2" or "3"; lower right, in black chalk: "2"; upper center, in black chalk: "+"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.109
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime: Old Master Drawings," December 11, 1998–March 28, 1999, checklist 20.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 61, cat. 34 (ill.).
Ownership History
Baron Hatvany, London [letter in curatorial files]. Herbert Bier, London [letter in curatorial files]. Sold by Robert M. Light, Boston, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, June 3, 1968 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.