Art, literature & history
Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie
1720/25
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with touches of red and brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)
- Dimensions
- 47.8 × 37.2 cm (18 7/8 × 14 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1962.586
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Alessandro Magnasco. Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie — Alessandro Magnasco. 1720/25.
Medium: Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with touches of red and brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray). Dimensions: 47.8 × 37.2 cm (18 7/8 × 14 11/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.