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An Amorous Couple
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Alessandro Magnasco, called Lissandrino
Genoa 1667 - 1749
An Amorous Couple
Point of the brush and gray wash, heightened with white on gray prepared paper
237 by 171 mm; 9 ⅜ by 6 ¾ in
The combination of media found in the O'Brien drawing, with its broad washes and abundant white heightening, is typical of Magnasco's highly distinctive graphic style and can be compared to other surviving drawings by the artist, two similar examples of which can be found in the collection of the Albertina, Vienna.1
1. See V. Birke & J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, vol. I, Munich 1991, pp. 187-188, figs. 226-227