Estimate
€ 5.000 - 8.000
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€ 4.500
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At auction on Wednesday 26 November 2025 at 14:30
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oil on canvas
60 x 44.5 cm
The unpublished works are attributed with certainty by the scholar to the hand of Alessandro Magnasco.
They constitute a homogeneous series (in terms of subject, size and style) of four pendants, coming from the Perego collection of Cremnago, which, due to the already mature but not yet loosened language, can be dated around 1710-1715.
The subjects fall within a beloved and recurring iconographic theme in the Genoese master's pictorial production: the depiction of the convent life of friars and nuns engaged in humble daily activities. The success of these subjects, much appreciated by his patrons, led Magnasco to execute autograph replicas of some of the compositions. This is also the case for three of the four paintings up for auction here, already known through other examples: for the Capuchin Friars Knife-Grinding and the Franciscan Nuns Weaving Straw , see B. Geiger, Magnasco, Bergamo 1949, plate 417 and plate 422; for the Franciscan Nuns Before the Fireplace , see L. Muti and D. De Sarno Prignano, Magnasco , Faenza, 1994, fig. 304, cat. 226.
However, no other versions of the Capuchin Tailors are known, a work which is therefore of particular interest within the painter's corpus .
60 x 44.5 cm
Provenance
Perego Collection of Cremnago; Milan, private collection
The four paintings up for auction (lots 112, 113, 114, 115) are accompanied by an expertise by Professor Franchini Guelfi, issued on March 9, 2011 after having viewed them directly.The unpublished works are attributed with certainty by the scholar to the hand of Alessandro Magnasco.
They constitute a homogeneous series (in terms of subject, size and style) of four pendants, coming from the Perego collection of Cremnago, which, due to the already mature but not yet loosened language, can be dated around 1710-1715.
The subjects fall within a beloved and recurring iconographic theme in the Genoese master's pictorial production: the depiction of the convent life of friars and nuns engaged in humble daily activities. The success of these subjects, much appreciated by his patrons, led Magnasco to execute autograph replicas of some of the compositions. This is also the case for three of the four paintings up for auction here, already known through other examples: for the Capuchin Friars Knife-Grinding and the Franciscan Nuns Weaving Straw , see B. Geiger, Magnasco, Bergamo 1949, plate 417 and plate 422; for the Franciscan Nuns Before the Fireplace , see L. Muti and D. De Sarno Prignano, Magnasco , Faenza, 1994, fig. 304, cat. 226.
However, no other versions of the Capuchin Tailors are known, a work which is therefore of particular interest within the painter's corpus .
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