id: 111691 accession number: 1930.22 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.22 updated: 2025-02-25 12:09:24.754000 Interior of a Synagogue, c. 1725–35. Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667–1749). Oil on canvas; framed: 140.5 x 167.5 x 6 cm (55 5/16 x 65 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 122 x 148.5 cm (48 1/16 x 58 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1930.22 title: Interior of a Synagogue title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1725–35 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1735 current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667–1749) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 140.5 x 167.5 x 6 cm (55 5/16 x 65 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 122 x 148.5 cm (48 1/16 x 58 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs opening date: 1940-02-07T05:00:00 Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-March 7, 1940). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Paths of Abstract Art opening date: 1960-10-05T04:00:00 Paths of Abstract Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-November 13, 1960). title: Alessandro Magnasco - 1667-1749 opening date: 1996-03-20T05:00:00 Alessandro Magnasco - 1667-1749. Palazzo Reale (organizer) (March 20-July 7, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Venice, 1929: "Il Settecento Italiano," cat. no. 14.', 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 158, pl. XXXVIII.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Springfield (Massachusets) Museum of Fine Arts, 1938: "Alessandro Magnasco, ca. 1677-ca. 1749," cat. no. 3. cat. no. 6.', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938: "Tiepolo and His Contemporaries," cat. no. 6.', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, World\'s Fair, May 27-Oct. 31, 1939: "Masterpieces of Art," cat. no. 230.', 'opening_date': '1939-05-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'San Francisco, M.H de Young Memorial Museum, Dec. 28, 1939-Jan. 28, 1940: "Seven Centuries of Painting," cat. no. Y-86.', 'opening_date': '1939-12-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Feb. 7-Mar. 7, 1940: "Masterpieces of Art," cat. no. 47, pl. XVI.', 'opening_date': '1940-02-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Genoa, Palazzo Bianco, June 18-October 15, 1949: "Mostra del Magnasco," cat. no. 72, pls. 80, 81; L\'Orangerie, Paris, France.', 'opening_date': '1949-06-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nov. 3, 1950- Feb. 11, 1951: "Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting," cat. no. 32.', 'opening_date': '1950-11-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1956: "The International Language," no catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1956-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, 1960: "Paths of Abstract Art," cat. no. 7.', 'opening_date': '1960-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Milan, Italy, Comune di Milano, Palazzo Reale, March 20-July 7, 1996: "Alessandro Magnasco," cat #', 'opening_date': '1996-03-20T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Private collection, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1928 date: footnotes: citations: D'Atri Gallery (Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: Benno Geiger, 1882-1965 (Vienna, Austria) date: footnotes: citations: Italico Brass (Venice, Italy), 1870-1943, sold through Harold Parsons to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930. date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1930- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Synagogue, by Alessandro Magnasco." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 4, part. 1 (April 1930): 66-73. page number: Mentioned: p. 66-68, 73; Reproduced: p. 70 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137292 Francis, Henry. "Loans to Important Exhibitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 7 (July 1939): 123 page number: Mentioned: p. 123 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138029 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 55 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n63 Prasse, Leona. "A Drawing by Alessandro Magnasco." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 4 (April 1949): 55-57. page number: Mentioned: p. 55 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141548 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 430 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n79 Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward B. Henning. Paths of Abstract Art. Cleveland, Ohio: H.N. Abrams, 1960. page number: Reproduced: no. 7, p. 6; mentioned: pp. 6, 23 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 142 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n166 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 142 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n166 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 141 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n161 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 374-376; Reproduced: p. 375 url: Franchini Guelfi, Fausta, and Veronique Damian. Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749): les années de la maturité d'un peintre anticonformiste (Exh. cat. Galerie Canesso, Paris, and Museo di Strada Nuova--Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, 2015). page number: Mentioned: p. 25-26; Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 22 url: Mende, Charlotte, and Alessandro Magnasco. Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749): eine visuelle Religionsgeschichte. Berlin : Reimer, 2022. page number: Mentioned: p.53; reproduced: p. 55, abb. 9 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.22/1930.22_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.22/1930.22_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.22/1930.22_full.tif