Sold Without Reserve | MANNER OF ALESSANDRO MAGNASCO, CALLED IL LISSANDRINO | A CONCERT IN A TAVERN AMONG RUINS

With Galeries Nackers, Brussels (according to a label on the reverse).

The lower portion of this composition closely compares to a drawing of the same subject by Alessandro Magnasco sold at Sotheby's London in 2014,¹ as well as to a painting by him showing a concert in an interior.²  The architectural setting of the present painting loosely recalls that found in Magnasco's painting of a similar theme today in the Nationalmuseum, Sweden.³

1. Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2014, lot 87.  Point of the brush and two shades of brown wash, heightened with white, on paper washed light brown

243 by 326 mm.

2. L. Muti and D. De Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco, Faenza 1994, p. 246, cat. no. 272, reproduced fig. 281.

3. Inv. no. NM 5340, oil on canvas, 100 by 75 cm.