Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)

The Penitent Magdalen

細節

Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)
The Penitent Magdalen
oil on canvas, unframed
21 5/8 x 18½ in. (54.9 x 46.9 cm.)

來源

(Possibly) M. Rasle, from which acquired for the Orléans collection.
(Possibly) Philippe, duc d'Orl©aans, régent de France (1674-1723), and by descent at the Palais Bourbon to
(Possibly) Philippe, duc d'Orléans, called Philippe-Egalité (1747-1793), with whose collection sold in 1791 to
Edouard Walkiers, by whom sold in turn in 1798 to Michael Bryan (1757-1821) on behalf of a consortium composed of
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803), George Granville, Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower, subsequently 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833) and Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825), by whom exhibited with other pictures from the Orléans Collection at Bryan's Pall Mall Gallery and the Lyceum, The Strand, 1798, no. 13, where (possibly) acquired by Lord Gower, and thence by descent in the Sutherland collection at Stafford House (the date of its sale from the collection is as yet unknown).
Acquired by the husband of the present owner in circa 1990.

出版

(Possibly) Dubois de Saint Gelais, Description des tableaux du Palais-Royal, Paris, 1727, p. 191.
(Possibly) J. Couche and l'Abbé Fontenay, eds., La Galerie du Palais-Royal, gravée d'après les tableaux, etc., Paris, I, 1786.
(Possibly) W. Young Ottley and P. Tomkins, The British Gallery of Pictures, London, 1818, no. 50.
(Possibly) W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, etc., I, London, 1824, p. 94.
(Possibly) A. Jameson, Companion to the most celebrated private galleries of art in London, London, 1844, pp. 186-7, no. 30.
(Possibly) G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, II, London, 1854, pp. 64 and 494.
(Possibly) C. Stryienski, La Galerie du Régent Philippe duc d'Orléans, Paris, 1913, pp. 170-1, no. 265.
(Possibly) D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni, Oxford, 1984, p. 262, under no. 126, Studio Variants, no. 5.
D.S. Pepper, 'Guido Reni's Practice of Repeating Compositions', Artibus et Historiae, Cracow, 1999, pp. 38 and 53, note 29, and p. 39, fig. 15, (incorrectly described as on copper) as fully autograph and thus revising his previously published opinion.

刻印

(Possibly) Donnel, 1786.
(Possibly) W. Young Ottley, 1818.

拍場告示

Please note that the Orléans Head of the Magdalen by Reni, which may well be identifiable with the present picture (see catalogue note) was sold from the Sutherland collection in these Rooms, 11 July 1913, lot 79, one of two pictures in the lot with a Portrait of the Mother of the Artist (11 gns. to Parsons).

拍品專文

This work has been accepted as an autograph work by Sir Denis Mahon and the late Dr. Stephen Pepper; Sir Denis dates it to the early 1630s, and Dr. Pepper dated it to 1632, placing it in the period he defined as Reni's second manner, the artist's advent to which he dated to circa 1628-31. In addition, Dr. Pepper in his 1999 article (loc. cit.) wrote of this picture that it 'seems identifiable with the work formerly in the Orleans collection and later in Stafford House.' The Orleans painting he had previously published in 1986 (loc. cit.) as a studio work, which opinion he revised in 1999, describing the present work as 'a beautiful example' and writing of it that '[the former owner] always maintained that his work was autograph, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge here, however belatedly, that he was right.'

The composition, with the Magdalen's head rested on her right hand, relates most closely to that of the full-length Penitent Magdalen in the Palazzo Corsino, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome. Another autograph version of the present, bust-length format is known, listed by Pepper in 1999 (op. cit., p. 38, fig. 14), who there discusses in depth Reni's practice of repeating his compositions.