Lot 196
196
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
ANNIBALE CARRACCI* (1560-1609)

Details
ANNIBALE CARRACCI* (1560-1609)

The Penitent Magdalen

red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, watermark encircled horse
10 7/8 x 8in. (278 x 202mm.)
Provenance
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445)
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (L. 2710b), and by descent to the Duke of Sutherland; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1972, lot 65, illustrated
The Woodner Collection; Christie's, London, 2 July 1991, lot 107, illustrated (¨14,300)
Literature
Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 107
Exhibited
London, Messrs. Woodburn's Gallery, The Lawrence Gallery, Sixth Exhibition, 1836, no. 100
Leicester, The Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, 1954, no 109 (as Bolognese School)
New York, William H. Schab Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum and Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Woodner Collection II, Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, 1973, no. 56, illustrated
Malibu, J.P. Getty Museum, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and Washington, National Gallery of Art, Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, 1983-4, no. 26, illustrated

Lot Essay

Similar in technique to the modello at Chatsworth for the Confraternity of San Rocco, Reggio Emilia of 1587, M. Jaffé, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, Virginia, 1987, no. 17, illustrated color plate 5. The head of the Magdalen may have been inspired by the sculpture of the Niobid discovered in the Lateran in 1583. George Goldner suggested in the 1983 catalogue that this drawing may be a primo pensiero for the picture of the Magdalen of 1600-1 in the Palazzo Doria Pamphili, Rome, D. Posner, Annibale Carracci, London, 1971, no. 125, illustrated