



Antonio Francesco Peruzzini(Italian, 1668-1724)A Mediterranean Landscape with Figures Boarding a Boat in Choppy Seas (a fragment)
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Claire Dettelbach
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Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (Italian, 1668-1724)
unsigned
oil on canvas
51.1 x 67.9 cm (20 1/8 x 26 3/4 in).
framed 68.5 x 86.3 x 7.6 cm (27 x 34 x 3 in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Charles Frederick Taft Seaverns (1878-1956) and Mary Bushnell Hillyer Seaverns (1880-1947), Hartford, by 1930.
Then by descent.
Literature
B. Geiger, Magnasco, Bergamo, 1949, p. 96, as Alessandro Magnasco.
L. Muti and D. de Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco, Ravenna, 1994, p. 298, no. R.170, under rejected attributions, as Circle of Alessandro Magnasco.
Exhibited
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, 22 January- 5 February 1930, no. 20, as Alessandro Magnasco.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tiepolo and his Contemporaries, 14 March- 24 April 1938, no. 7, as Alessandro Magnasco.
New York, Durlacher Brothers, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Alessandro Magnasco, 9 January- 3 February 1940, no. 16, as Alessandro Magnasco.
N.B.
The present work was previously attributed to Alessandro Magnasco. Antonio Francesco Peruzzini and Magnasco have similar styles and indeed once collaborated while working in Florence under the patronage of Ferdinand de' Medici, with Peruzzini painting the paintings' landscapes and Magnasco painting the figures.
The present painting is likely a fragment - perhaps the lower right corner - of a larger composition titled The Smugglers. In May 2025, Daniele de Sarno Prignano and Laura Muti revised their 1994 opinion and suggested a new identification for the work, on the basis of high-resolution color photographs, as a collaboration between Antonio Francesco Peruzzini and Alessandro Magnasco (for the figures). Some of the figural groups resemble ones in other known collaborations by Peruzzini and Magnasco. In particular, the woman being helped ashore by a man at left-center and the man yanking the boat ashore at center-right each appear in almost identical iterations in at least four other paintings.