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Baptism. Study for the Painting 'Landscape with the Baptism of Christ', Washington National GalleryArtist: Alessandro Magnasco
Medium: Drawings, Red chalk on light grey paper, 26x21.2 cm
Date: c. 1740
Genre: Religious, Christianity
Source: 1930
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 - March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.
After 1710, Magnasco excelled in producing small, hypochromatic canvases with eerie and gloomy landscapes and ruins, or crowded interiors peopled with small, often lambent and cartoonishly elongated characters. The influences on his work are obscure. Some suspect the influence of the loose painterly style of his Venetian contemporary Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), the Genoese Domenico Piola (1627-1703) and Gregorio de Ferrari, although the most prominent of the three, Ricci, painted in a more monumental and mythic style, and these artists may in fact have been influenced by Magnasco.