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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Mr. Everett Fahy for suggesting the attribution, having inspected the painting in the original.
The artist was first identified as a unique hand by Federico Zeri (see M. Laclotte and E. Mognetti, Catalogue of the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, 1976, no. 261). As Mr. Fahy notes (private communication, 3 December 2001), in the fifteen or so known works by this master, the tooling of the haloes and the figure types, which are in part inspired by Fra Angelico, are identical to those found in the present composition. The motif of the Magdalen embracing the base of the cross recurs in at least two other works: a Trinity (Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 1989, lot 161) and in the right-hand shutter of the eponymous work in the Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. no. 2034).
The artist was first identified as a unique hand by Federico Zeri (see M. Laclotte and E. Mognetti, Catalogue of the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, 1976, no. 261). As Mr. Fahy notes (private communication, 3 December 2001), in the fifteen or so known works by this master, the tooling of the haloes and the figure types, which are in part inspired by Fra Angelico, are identical to those found in the present composition. The motif of the Magdalen embracing the base of the cross recurs in at least two other works: a Trinity (Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 1989, lot 161) and in the right-hand shutter of the eponymous work in the Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. no. 2034).