Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin
Alessandro Magnasco
1720–1725
- Medium
- Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)
- Dimensions
- 46.6 × 37 cm (18 3/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- ink or chalk wash
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkpaintchalkchalk sticksgouachewashink or chalk washwhite chalkprints and drawinginorganic materialwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
A Genoese artist who worked mostly in Milan, Alessandro Magnasco epitomizes the transition between 17th- and 18th-century art in northern Italy. Rarely did his highly individual style find such expression as in this drawing, in which reddish-brown chalk wash heightened with white approximates the agitated strokes of the heavily applied impasto in his oil paintings.
