The Synagogue

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1725/35

Alessandro Magnasco
Italian, 1667-1749

Currently Off View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Alessandro Magnasco
Title: The Synagogue
Origin: Italy
Date: 1725–1735
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 47 × 58 15/16 in. (119.4 × 149.8 cm)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1949.586

Emile Bernard, “Alexandre Magnasco,” L’Amour de l’Art 10 (October 1929) p. 345 (ill.)
Giuseppe Delogu, Pittori minori liguri lombardi piemontesi del seicento e del settecento (Venice, 1931), p. 81, 87, 124, 268, fig. 123.
Maria Popisil, Magnasco (Florence, 1944), pp. XXXVII, LXXXV, pl. 154-157.
Benno Geiger, Magnasco (Bergamo, 1949), pp.146-147, 188, cat. no. 199, 200 (detail).
AIC Bulletin 44, (15 November 1950), p. 62.
“Recent Acquisitions,” Pictures on Exhibit 12 (January 1950) p. 44.
An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1956), p. 26.
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961) pp. 55 (ill.), 265-266.
Leo Bruhns, Franz G. W. Metternich, Ludwig Schudt, Miscellanea Bibliothecae Herzianae (Munich, 1961), p. 518.
Rodolfo Pallucchini, “L’Art Institute di Chicago,” L’Illustrazione del Medico 212 (1966), p. 12, fig. 3.
Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 115, 507, 571.
Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco (Genoa, 1977), pp. 218, 226, fig. 240.
Cleveland Museum of Art, European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries (Cleveland, 1972), pp. 374-376, no. 165.
Laura Muti and Daniele de Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco (Ravenna, 1994), cat. no. 43, fig. 294.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Alessandro Magnasco, 1667-1749, exh. cat. 1996, pp. 194, 200, 202 (ill.).
Maria Rosa Montiani Bensi, “Iconografie ebraiche e protestanti nella pittura di Alessandro Magnasco,” Studi di storia delle arti 9 (1997–1999), p. 205.

Paris, Galerie Sambon, Alessandro Magnasco, catalogue des oeuvres de ce maitre exposeés a la Galerie Sambon, 22 May - 12 June 1929, suppl. no. 24, pl. 2.
Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Cinque pittori del settecento - Ghislandi, Crespi, Magnasco, Bazzani, Ceruti, April 1943, p. 62-63, no. 41 (ill.).
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Trends in Painting 1600-1800, 2 October - 3 November 1957, p. 42, 43 (ill.).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Let There Be Light, 11 March - 26 April 1964, no. 210.

Arthur Sambon, Paris, 1929 [according to Paris 1926, suppl. no 24]. Bessand, Paris, by 1931. [according to Delogu, 1931, p. 124]; bought by Italico Brass (d. 1943), Venice, by c. 1932 [see letter by from his grandson, Italico Brass Jr. to Henry Clifford, Philadelphia Museum of Art, regarding the provenance of the pendant, The Catechism in the Cathedralof Milan; copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his son Alessandro Brass [see 19 November 1949 letter from Alessandro Brass to Daniel Catton Rich in curatorial file]; sold by Alessandro Brass to the Art Institute, 1949.

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