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This is a painting featuring multiple figures and objects. The image depicts figures intertwined in an interior space. There is a use of chiaroscuro, with light highlighting certain figures. The setting includes wooden stools and an urn in the background, implying a classical or historical context. Various forms and outlines in the painting hint at fabrics and textures, creating an aged texture. This is in the style of Peter Paul Rubens.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Penitent at a Quaker Sermon
Alessandro Magnasco
- Date
- c. 1710-1720
- Medium
- brush and brown wash with white heightening on paper washed gray brown
- 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.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 2013.78.1
- Credit line
- Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
- Time span
- 1701 to 1725
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- figure
- Seated figure
- interior
- architecture
- Dog
- Figures
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.
Inscription
by later hand, verso center, in graphite: Geiger, pl 189.
NGA object ID 161957. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.