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Brown wash drawing of a seated musician with a stringed instrument beside a shrine, surrounded by kneeling robed listeners on a rocky, shadowed landscape.

Ballad Singer at a Shrine of the Virgin

A brown wash drawing shows a seated musician playing a stringed instrument beside a small shrine holding a figure of the Virgin, with a cloaked man at left. Kneeling and standing listeners in robes crowd the rocky, shadowed foreground under swirling, loosely sketched hills.

Artist
Alessandro Magnasco
Date
1720/25
Medium
Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid pa
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 2119 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1725).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein Collection

Español: Cantor de baladas ante un santuario de la Virgen

Un dibujo en aguada marrón muestra a un músico sentado que toca un instrumento de cuerda junto a un pequeño santuario con una figura de la Virgen, y a un hombre encapuchado a la izquierda. Oyentes arrodillados y de pie, con túnicas, llenan el primer plano rocoso y sombrío bajo colinas trazadas con soltura.

Português: Cantor de baladas diante de um santuário da Virgem

Um desenho em aguada marrom mostra um músico sentado tocando um instrumento de corda ao lado de um pequeno santuário com a figura da Virgem, e um homem encapuzado à esquerda. Ouvintes ajoelhados e em pé, com túnicas, ocupam o primeiro plano rochoso e sombrio sob colinas esboçadas com leveza.