ALESSANDRO MAGNASCO, CALLED LISSANDRINO | NUNS MAKING WICKER FLASKS IN AN INTERIOR

Property of a New York Private Collector
ALESSANDRO MAGNASCO, CALLED LISSANDRINO
Genoa 1667 - 1749
NUNS MAKING WICKER FLASKS IN AN INTERIOR

oil on canvas
24¾ by 18 in.; 61 by 45.7 cm.

Condition Report:
The canvas is lined and stable on its stretcher. The image reads well despite a slightly darkened varnish. A small dot of repair is visible as an inconsistency to the canvas texture at the upper left. Some frame abrasion is visible on all 4 edges but is not distracting. Under UV inspection, a thick varnish is difficult to read through, but an earlier campaign of small retouches seems to be underneath. More recent retouching is obscured. Offered in a decoratively painted black and giltwood frame.

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Provenance:
Arthur Steiner, Vienna;

From whom acquired by Attilio Steffanoni, 1912, for 5000 lire;

Private Collection, Berlin, 1922 (Per Ferri);

Dr. Victor Bloch, Vienna;

By whom sold, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Lucerne, 30 November 1934, lot 22;

Private Collection, Vienna, by 1937 (according to Galerie Sanct Lucas in 1937);

David Goldmann, Vienna and New York, by 1938 (Confiscated by the Nazi authorities after March 1938; allocated to the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck and restituted after WWII);

Thence by descent to present owner.