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Wednesday 26 November 2025, 02:30 PM • Rome

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Attribuito ad Alessandro Maganza

(Vicenza 1556 - 1640)

Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane

Estimate

€ 3.000 - 5.000

Sold

€ 3.870

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

pen, brown ink and brown watercolor on paper
306 x 208 mm live

Provenance

Ferruccio Asta Collection, as per mark (Lugt L.116a)
We thank Prof. John Marciari for proposing the present attribution, based on a color photograph.

The drawing is accompanied by a letter from Professor Pietro Toesca, dated March 12, 1943 and available in a copy, which attributes it to Jacopo Tintoretto.
However, the work seems more attributable to a painter of the following generation, in particular Alessandro Maganza, whose Oration in the Garden  in the Church of Santa Maria Annunciata in Vicenza, features a similar composition. The elongation of the figures and the clear chiaroscuro achieved with the watercolor recall the drawing depicting Three Saints, a Bishop Adoring the Virgin of Loreto  in the Morgan Library in New York.

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