The Baptism of Christ
The Baptism of Christ
- Artist
- Alessandro Magnasco
- Artist Dates
- 1667-1749
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Baptism of Christ
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 117.5 x 146.7 cm (46 1/4 x 57 3/4 in)
- K Number
- K1191
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1943.4.27
- Notes
Provenance
Private collection, Genoa. [1] Probably (Arthur Sambon, Paris), by 1929. Benno Geiger, Vienna. [2] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;gift 1943 to NGA. [1] According to a note on the back of a photograph, NGA photographic archives. [2] Benno Geiger, _Magnasco_, Bergamo, 1949: 87