A Penitent at a Quaker Sermon
c. 1710-1720
Artist, Italian, 1667 - 1749
Artwork overview
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Medium
brush and brown wash with white heightening on paper washed gray brown
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 32.5 × 24.1 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2013.78.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, Mantua; Marelli collection, Bergamo; Stephen Spector, New York; David Daniels, New York; his sale, Sotheby's London, 25 April 1978, lot 27; private collection, Florence; (Galleria Lapiccirella, Florence); purchased 2013 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1962
Genoese Masters, Cambiaso to Magnasco, 1550-1750, Dayton, Dayton Art Institute; Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1962-1963, no. 87.
1966
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Drawings, NGA and nine additional venues, American Federation of Arts, circulating exhibition, 1966-1967, no. 25.
1968
Loan Exhibition of Drawings from the Daniels Collection, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Art institute of Chicago; Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1968, no. 14.
2020
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 125 (Washington venue canceled).
2021
A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750 [canceled for National Gallery of Art venue], Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2021 - 2022, no. 125.
Bibliography
1949
Geiger, Benno. Magnasco. Bergamo, 1949, pl. 189.
2013
Lapiccirella, Damiano, and Francesca Antonacci,Collezionando II: Master Drawings.Florence, 2013, cat. 7.
2020
Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 348, no. 125.
Inscriptions
by later hand, verso center, in graphite: Geiger, pl 189.
Wikidata ID
Q64534031