Portrait of a man in a lace trimmed neckerchief

Details

GENOESE SCHOOL, CIRCA 1700
Portrait of a man in a lace trimmed neckerchief
oil on canvas
25 ¾ x 19 ½ in. (65.4 x 49.5 cm.)

Provenance

Giuseppe Brunati, Milan.
G. Bacchiera, Venice.
[From a Private Collection]; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1984, lot 133, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 January 1992, lot 184, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.

Literature

B. Geiger 'L'autoritratto del Magnasco', Le tre Venezie, February 1943, pp. 55-57 (see C. Calamai, op. cit.), as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
M. Bonzi, Omaggio al Magnasco, Il Secolo XIX, 17 October 1946 (see F. Franchini Guelfi, loc. cit.).
B. Geiger, Magnasco, Bergamo, 1949, p. 183, no. 1, pl. 1, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
C. Calamai, 'Formazione e arte di Alessandro Magnasco,' Antichità Viva, no. 5, May-June 1963, p. 21, as Alessandro Magnasco.
F. Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco, Genoa, 1977, p. 54, note 23, rejects the attribution.
M. Cinotti, Catalogo della pittura italiana dal '300 al '700, Milan, 1985, p. 228, illustrated, as Alessandro Magnasco.
L. Muti and D. de Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco, Ravenna, 1994, p. 337, no. R.514, under rejected attributions.

Exhibited

Padua, Galleria d’Arte Le Tre Venezie, Mostra di Pittura del '600 e del '700, 23 January- 7 February 1943, no. 34 (see C. Cinotti, loc. cit.).

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Lot Essay

First published by Benno Geiger in 1949, this painting was previously believed to be a self-portrait of the Genovese artist Alessandro Magnasco, called Lisandrino (loc cit.). At that time, the reverse of the panel was inscribed: 'Ritratto del Lisandrino pinto da lui stesso' ('Portrait of Lissandro painted by himself', loc. cit.). In her 1977 catalogue, Fausta Franchini Guelfi found the attribution to be untenable, it was again later rejected by Laura Muti and Daniele de Sarno Prignano (loc cit.).

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