Provenance
with Durlacher Bros., New York, from whom purchased by
The Saint Louis Art Museum, by 1940; Christie's, New York, 24 January 2003, lot 155, where purchased by the late owner.
Literature
(Possibly) A. Frankfurter, Art News, XXXVIII, 13 January 1940, p. 9, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
P. Rathbone, Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, XXVI, December 1941, pp. 78-9, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
B. Geiger, Magnasco, Bergamo, 1949, p. 135, fig. 479, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-19th Century, Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, 1972, pp. 116, 630, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
L. Muti and D. de Sarno Prignano, Magnasco, Faenza, 1994, p. 326, no. R416, as 'Genoese follower of Alessandro Magnasco'.
L. Muti and D. de Sarno Prignano, Antonio Francesco Peruzzini, Faenza, 1996, p. 170, no. 130, as 'attributable to Peruzzini with assistance, for the figures, of an anonymous collaborator working in the style of Lissandrino'.
Exhibited
New York, Durlacher Bros., A loan exhibition of paintings by Alessandro Magnasco, 1940, no. 5, as Magnasco.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Painting in Italy in the 18th Century, Rococo to Romanticism, 19 September-1 November 1970; 24 November 1970-10 January 1971; 7 February-21 March, 1971, no. 10, as 'Alessandro Magnasco'.
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