Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie

Provenance

Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 24, 1955, lot 132. Otto Wertheimer, Paris [Joachim 1980]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.

Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie

Alessandro Magnasco

1720/25

Accession Number

14799

Medium

Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with touches of red and brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)

Dimensions

47.8 × 37.2 cm (18 7/8 × 14 11/16 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Helen Regenstein Collection