Shipwreck

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian (Genoese), 1667–1749)

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions78.7 x 66.0 cm (31 x 26 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow; Bequest of Nathaniel T. Kidder; The Henry C. and Martha B. Angell Collection; William Sturgis Bigelow Collection; gift of Dr. Harold W. Dana; and Gifts by Subscription, by exchange

Accession number42.491

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceUntil 1933, Ludwig Behr (d. 1945), Tutzing, Germany; June 27-28, 1933, Behr sale, Helbing, Munich, lot 176. 1940, private collection, New York; February 15, 1940, sale of private collector, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, lot 42. By 1941, Julius Weitzner, New York; 1942, exchanged with and sold by Weitzner to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 9, 1942)