Bologneser Meister der zweiten Hälfte des 17./ Anfang 18. Jahrhunderts

PENITENT MARY MAGDALENE Oil on wood. 30 x 22.5 cm. In wide relief-decorated and gilt frame. A craggy rock lies in a southern landscape characterized by a group of pine trees and an open body of water crossed by a sailing ship. In front of it, beneath a wooden cross, Mary Magdalene, lightly clothed and lying in the shape of a hyperbola, her golden hair gliding over her upper arm and her gaze directed upwards. Above her, two putti hold on to a branch. The painting was formerly given to Adrian van der Werff. In terms of both the landscape of the subject and the coloration, the painting offered here is related to a penitent Magdalene by van der Werff, which is dated 1718 and kept under inv. no. 1943 in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. While we know of no other direct version of this composition, with regard to the diagonally reclining figure of the Magdalene, reference should also be made to several Lamentations of Christ in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (inv. no. 1967), for example, which show Christ in a similar position. (14012512) (13) School of Bologna, second half 17th century/ early 18th century PENITENT MARY MAGDALENE Oil on panel. 30 x 22.5 cm. (†)