Full Record |
| Title |
Mountainous Wooded Landscape with Figures |
| Alternative Title |
Landscape with Figures |
| Collection |
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery |
| Artist |
Attributed to Magnasco, Alessandro (Italian painter and draftsman, 1667-1749)
Previously attributed to Ricci, Marco (Italian painter and draftsman, 1676-1730) |
| Date Earliest |
about 1695 |
| Date Latest |
1749 |
| Description |
This dark painting shows a landscape with a woody foreground, in which is seen a group of travellers. Beyond, contrasting with the dark foreground, is a lighter desolate plateau, and further back the view is closed by the sharp forms of a range of mountains covered in snow. The painter has placed the horizon line quite low in the painting, in order to give prominence to a cloudy sky in the background and a dramatically wind-swept tree in the foreground. Through the use of colour, the artist created an illusion of depth and gelid air. |
| Current Accession Number |
2000.149.2 |
| Subject |
figure; landscape |
| Measurements |
96.0 x 73 cm.0 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Given by Mrs Harold Thompson 2000. |
| Provenance |
Sold by Mrs Daniel Burke, Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1966, lot 56, as Landscape with Figures by Marco Ricci; Mr Harold Thompson, Chilbolton, Winchester. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
Landscape into Art, Atlanta Art Association, 1962?. |
| Notes |
Magnasco was influenced by the landscape paintings of Salvatore Rosa, and experimented with the more violent and dramatic aspects, which would make his pictures much to the taste of the Romantics. |
| Rights Owner |
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery |
| Author |
Pablo Pérez d'Ors; Dr Angela Smith |
