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The Nativity with Attendant Angels

1730-1735
Alessandro Magnasco, also called Lissandro and Lissandrino (Italian (active Genoa, Milan, Venice, and Florence) 1667–1749)
A Genoese painter who often depicted exotic or macabre subjects in canvases marked by dramatic-even stormy-contrasts of light and dark, Magnasco was also a prolific draughtsman who liked to work, as here, with a brush on paper instead of with pen and ink.

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