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| The Tame Magpie |
Artist:Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, Genoa 1667–1749 Genoa)
Date:ca. 1707–8
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:25 x 29 1/2 in. (63.5 x 74.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Katherine D. W. Glover Gift, 1984
Accession Number:1984.191
The reputation of Magnasco, one of the most individual eighteenth-century painters, resides in the exuberance of his technique and the fantasy of his subject matter. Here people from the fringes of society have gathered to watch the spectacle of a man trying to teach a magpie to sing—an impossible task. The picture was probably painted when Magnasco was working for the Medici in Florence and was in contact with Sebastiano Ricci.
Provenance
[Julius Böhler, Munich, 1966; sold to Thaw]; [E. V. Thaw, New York, 1966–84; sold to MMA]
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