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Landscape with Fishermen

Alessandro Magnasco (AKA Lissandrino Magnasco; "il Lissandrino"), Italian, (1667–March 12, 1749)

Creation date: ca. 1730
Creation place: Italy

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of Jacob M. Heimann
Accession Number: 1942.9
State/Province: Milan
Dimensions: 38 1/2 in. x 28 5/8 in. (97.79 cm x 72.71 cm)

Provenance

Jacob M. Heimann, New York, New York ( - July 25, 1942)

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (July 25, 1942 - )

Label Copy

Alessandro Magnasco is considered one of the most eccentric and intelligent original artists working in Milan during the Baroque era. While his name is lesser known today, he was eagerly collected during the first few decades of the eighteenth century. Although he began his career as a portrait artist, he is renowned for his epic genre paintings and landscape canvases that incorporate abstraction and fantasy. The subjects of many of Magnasco’s canvases were those on the fringe of society rather than the elite, as is the case in this painting, where poor fishermen are the only figures in the composition. A similar canvas located in Vienna with the same subject matter may be the matching pair to this painting, since Magnasco frequently made his paintings in sets. --MAB 2015

Last Updated: 5/6/2021

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Genre and Myth The San Diego Museum of Art , 8/13/2016 - 00/00/00

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 116

Julia Gethman Andrews (DUP). A Catalogue of European Paintings, 1300-1870 San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1947
Page Number: 43, Figure Number: 43

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 497

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 631

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1960
Page Number: 72, Figure Number: 72

Dr. Alfred M. Frankfurter, ed. Art News The Art Foundation, Inc.. New York, New York, December 1, 1944-December 14, 1944
Page Number: 14

Mr. Barry Hannengan. Italian Paintings: XIV–XVIIIth Centuries, Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, Maryland, 1981
Page Number: 285, 286, 287, Figure Number: 1 (and detail)

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