Attributed to Aurelio Milani (1675-1749)

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Attributed to Aurelio Milani (1675-1749)

The Magdalen resisting the Devil

numbered '49'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on brown paper, octagonal
278 x 340mm.
Provenance
J. A. Duval le Camus (L. 1441)

Lot Essay

The physical types, with heavily accented eyes and attenuated limbs, of the Departure of the Prodigal Son at Princeton and Christ healing the Possessed Man at the Metropolitan Museum recall the present sheet , M. Cazort and C. Johnston, Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800, Ottawa, 1982, no. 92, illustrated and J. Bean, 17th Century Italian Collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, no. 288, illustrated

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