Details
Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, il Giampietrino (active Milan c. 1495-1540)
Mary Magdalene
oil on panel
24¾ x 19 in. (63 x 48.3 cm.)
Provenance
Aldobrandini Collection, Rome, as 'Portrait of Artemisia attributed to Leonardo da Vinci'.
Wickham Flower, Great Tangley Manor, Guildford, Surrey and London, by 1898; (+) Christie's, 17 December 1904, lot 50.
with Agnew's, London.
Sir George Donaldson (1845-1915), London, by 1911.
Sir John Frecheville Ramsden, 6th Bt. (1877-1958), Bulstrode House, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; Christie's, 27 and 30 May 1932, lot 72, from whom acquired by Coulette as agent for
Godfrey Locker-Lampson (1875-1946), London.
Somerset Struben de Chair (1911-1995), St. Isyth's Priory, Essex and London; Sotheby's, 19 November 1952, lot 43.
Literature
G. Pauli, 'Ausstellung von Gemälden der lombardischen Schule im Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, April-Juni 1898', Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, X, 1898-99, p. 146.
S. Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la renaissance (1280-1580), I, Paris, 1905, p. 192; VI, p. 314.
F. Malaguzzi Valeri, Corte di Lodovico il Moro: Gli artisti lombardi, Milan, 1917, III, pp. 72, 74, fig. 61.
A Few Italian Pictures Collected by Godfrey Locker-Lampson, c. 1938, pp. 16-17, no. V.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, I, p. 168.
F.R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century, London, 1968, II, p. 138.
Exhibited
London, New Galleries, Early Italian Art from 1300-1500, 1893-94, no. 195, as 'Andrea Solario'.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and Allied Schools of Lombardy, May-July 1898, no. 56.
London, Grafton Galleries, A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Old Masters..., 1911, no. 34.
Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center, The Christian Drama, 4 December 1960-29 January 1961, no. 15.
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, María Magdalena: éxtasis y arrepentimiento, 17 May-2 September 2001, pp. 117, 197, no. 77.
Sale room notice
Please note the additional literature for the present lot:
C.J. Ffoulkes, Archivio Storico dell'arte, VII, 1894, pp. 256-258, no. 195.
(Probably) P. Della Pergola, 'L'Inventario del 1592 di Lucrezia d'Este', Arte Antica e Moderna, VII, 1959, pp. 342-351, as either no. 29 or 37 (two unattributed Magdalene paintings in Lucrezia d'Este's Collection).
P. Della Pergola, 'Gli Inventari Aldobrandini', Arte Antica e Moderna, XII, 1960, p. 430, as no. 51 in the Aldobrandini Inventory of 1626.
P. Della Pergola, 'Gli Inventari Aldobrandini: l'inventario del 1682', Arte Antica e Moderna, XXI, 1963, p. 75, as no. 375 in the Aldobrandini Inventory of 1682.
P.C. Marani, Leonardo e i leonardeschi a Brera, Florence, 1987, p. 42, fig. 33.
P.C. Marani, 'Leonardo. La Giocanda', Arte Dossier, 189, May 2003, p. 37.
F. Rinaldi, 'Giampetrino. Dagli esordi alla pala fornari del 1521', Raccolta Vinciana, XXXIII, 2009, pp. 193-224, fig. 4.
It is suggested in Rinaldi's article that the present lot can be dated to circa 1515 because of its stylistic connections with Rizzoli's Ospedaletto Lodigiano altarpiece.
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