The Supper of Pulcinella and Colombina

Artist Alessandro Magnasco Italian, 1667–1749

Datecirca 1725–1730

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 3/4 x 41 3/8 in. (78.1 x 105.1 cm)
Frame: 40 1/2 x 51 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (102.9 x 130.2 x 10.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.56

On View

On view

ProvenancePrivate Collection, Germany; with David M. Koetser, New York; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1953; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesW. E. Suida, Art of the Italian Renaissance from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (Columbia, SC: Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, 1954), 55.

C. Seymour, Art Treasures for America (1961), 161.

Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1962), cat. no. 58.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 114, illus. (b-w) 115.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings From the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century, Vol. 3 (London: Phaidon Press, 1966-1973), 110, illus. fig. 213 (K1953).

Alessandro Magnasco (exhibition catalogue) (Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1967), cat. no. 28.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 68, illus. (b-w) 69.

Fausta Franchini Guelfi, "Alessandro Magnasco," La Pittura a Genova e in Liguria dal Seicento al primo Novecento (Genova: Ed. Sagep, 1971), 361-86, illus. 252.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 203.

Genevieve Knupfer, The Cat at the Party (Melano Park, CA: Archives of the Painted Cat, 1986), illus. 9.

Fausta Franchini Guelfi, La Pittura a Genova e in Liguria dal Seicento al primo Novecento (Genova: Sagep Editrice, 1987), 325-345, illus. fig. 295.

The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia (exhibition catalogue) (Louisville, KY: The J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1990), cat. no. 28, illus. (color).

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 193.

Elizabeth Howard, The Art of Alessandro Magnasco: An Essay in the Recovery of Meaning with a Survey of Magnasco Paintings in North American Public Collections, Pocket Library of Studies in Art, Vol. 28 (Leo S. Olschiki Editore, 1994), illus. fig. 12.

Chiyo Ishikawa, et al, A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 253-58, cat. no. 49, illus. (color) 254.

Allesandro Magnasco, 1667-1749 (exhibition catalogue) (Milan: published by Electa for Palazzo Reale, 1996), cat. no. 52, illus. (color).

David Steel, entry for The Supper of Pulcinella and Colombina, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 146, illus. (color).

"Theater of Vice: The Kress Pulcinella Paintings Reunited," in Collections 62 (Columbia Museum of Art Newsletter) (November/December 2006) discussed 6-7, illus. (b-w) 6.

David Steel, entry for The Supper of Pulcinella and Colombina, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 300, illus. (color) 301.
Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962.

Louisville, KY, J.B. Speed Art Museum, "Alessandro Magnasco," February 20-March 26, 1967; Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Museum of Art, April-May, 1967, cat. no. 28.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 68, illus. (b-w) 69.

Louisville, KY, J. B. Speed Art Museum, "The Mask of Comedy, The Art of Italian Commedia," September 10-November 4, 1990.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, 1994: Houston, TX, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 22-August 14, 1994; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum, September 15-Nov. 20, 1994; San Francisco, CA, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, December 17, 1994-March 4, 1995, cat. no. 49.

Milan, Italy, Palazzo Reale, March 21-July 7, 1996, "Alessandro Magnasco: 1667-1749," cat. no. 52, illus. (color).

Columbia, SC, Columbia Museum of Art, "Theater of Vice: The Kress Pulcinella Paintings Reunited," September 29, 2006-January 21, 2007; loan extended to be displayed with the permanent collection, January 2007-May 2009.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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