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Landscape with woodcutters
Lost Art-ID
573867
Artist
Magnasco, Alessandro
Birth
1677 (um), Genua?
Death
1749.03.12, Genua
Place of activity
Mailand; Florenz; Genua
Title
Landscape with woodcutters
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil : canvas / painted
Height
91.00 cm
Width
116.00 cm
Description
In a dreamlike mountain valley, overgrown with trees and bushes in a strange arrangement, there are many people in a row going across the picture, almost equally spaced, busy with various kinds of forest thrush and other forestry work. Ridged, angular and jagged, exaggerated movements of the individual give the whole a ghostly fascinating expression. This is further enhanced by the background illuminated in icy cobalt blue, which seems to absorb the olive green, pearly gray overall tone of the front landscape.
Provenance
Arthur Maier Collection, Carlsbad (died 1935), Marianne Matella, Carlsbad (legitimate heir); Auction 1939 by the auction house Lempertz, Cologne; [...];
2021 amicable settlement with the heirs
Status
amicable settlement
Literature / Source
Lempertz Auktion, Gemälde Alter Meister, Porzellan / Fayence, Katalog 403, Lot 30
Published since
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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