The Tempest

Artist Alessandro Magnasco Italian, 1667–1749

Datecirca 1710–1720

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions45 1/4 x 68 1/8 in. (114.9 x 173 cm)
Frame: 53 3/8 x 76 1/4 in. (135.6 x 193.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.57

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ProvenanceMrs. Kittoe Payne; Payne sale, Sotheby's, London, July 7, 1954, lot 59; purchased by Schweizer; with David M. Koetser, New York; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1957; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesPaintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, 2nd ed.
(Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1959), cat. no. K-541, illus. 236.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 116, illus. (b-w) 117.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection: A Catalog of European Paintings and Sculpture (exhibition catalogue) (Coral Gables: University Press, University of Miami, 1961), 80, related illus. 81.

Cambiaso to Magnasco, 1550-1750 (exhibition catalogue) (Dayton: Dayton Art Institute, 1962), cat. no. 42, illus.

Creighton Gilbert, "The Baroque in Genoa," Arts Magazine 37, no. 4 (January 1963), 59, 60.

Nature and Natural Phenomena in Art of the Eighteenth Century (exhibition brochure) (Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1964), no. 9.

From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists (exhibition catalogue) (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968), cat. no. 34, illus. 53.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, Vol. 3 (London: Phaidon Press, 1973), 111, illus. fig. 217 (K2178).

Gertrude Rosenthal, ed., Italian Paintings XVI-XVIIIth Centuries from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981), illus. 213.

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) 213.

Sabine Mertens, Seesturm und Shiffbruch (Hamburg, Germany: Ernst Kabel Verlag,1987), 64, illus. 171.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 197.

Laura Muti and Daniele de Sarno Prignano, Allesandro Magnasco (Ravenna: Edit Faenza, 1994), cat. no. 292, illus. (color) 369, fig. 159.

Alessandro Magnasco: 1667-1749 (exhibition catalogue) (Milan: published by Electa for Palazzo Reale, 1996), cat. no. 20, illus. (color).

Laura Muti and Daniele de Sarno Prignano, Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (Ravenna: Edit Faenza, 1996), 24, 167, illus. 24.

Stéphane Loire, ed., Peintures italiennes du XVIII? siècle du musée du Louvre (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2017), illus. (b-w) 197, fig. 81.
Exhibition HistoryBristol, Bristol Museum, n.d.

Coral Gables, FL, The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, "The Samuel H. Kress Collection: A Catalog of European Paintings and Sculpture," 1961, 80, related illus. 81.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. no. 59.

Dayton, OH, Dayton Art Institute, "Genoese Masters: Cambiaso to Magnasco, 1550-1750," October 19-December 2, 1962; Sarasota, FL, John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, January 5-February 17, 1963; Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, March 19-May 5, 1963, cat. no. 42, illus.

Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College Art Gallery, "Nature and Natural Phenomena in Art of the Eighteenth Century," February 20-March 13, 1964, no. 9.

Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," October 22-December 8, 1968, cat. no. 34, illus. 53.

Milan, Italy, Palazzo Reale, "Alessandro Magnasco: 1667-1749," March 21-July 7, 1996, cat. no. 20, illus. (color).
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