Cloister School,
oil on canvas, 172.5 x 232.5 cm, framed

Probable Provenance:
Fratelli Grandi, Milan;
Benno Geiger, Berlin, 1912;
Private collection, Baden-Baden, 1929 (as Alessandro Magnasco);
Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Paris;
whence acquired in 1937 by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartfort, Connecticut, with support from the Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund;
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 28 May 1999, lot 74 (as circle of Alessandro Magnasco)

Probably Exhibited:
Berlin, Paul Cassier, 1914 (travelling exhibition of Benno Geiger’s Magnasco collection; also shown at Kunstverein Cologne; Galerie Schneider, Frankfurt; Galerie Levesque, Paris; Galerie Thannhauser, Munich);
Düsseldorf, Galerie Flechtheim, 1920;
New York, Durlacher Bros., A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Alessandro Magnasco, 1940, no. 12;
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Contrasts in Impressionism. An Exhibition of Paintings by Alessandro Magnasco, Claude Monet, John Marin, 13 November – 27 December 1947, no. 10

Probable Literature:
B. Geiger, Alessandro Magnasco, 1914, no. 18 (as Alessandro Magnasco);
W. Graf Kielmansegg (ed.), Der Querschnitt, Verlag der Galerie Flechtheim Berlin-Düsseldorf, January 1921, p. 24 (as Alessandro Magnasco);
Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, New York, vol. 13, 1 & 2, 1929, p. 2 (as Alessandro Magnasco);
A. M. Frankfurter, in: Art News, XIII, 1940, p. 9; B. B. Fredericksen/F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, 1972, pp. 116, 585 (as follower of Magnasco);
J. K. Cadogan (ed.), Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings II, Italy and Spain, Fourteenth through Nineteenth Century, 1991, p. 176 (as copy after Magnasco);
L. Muti/D. De Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco, 1994, pp. 297/98, no. R. 168 (listed among the rejected)