LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

43.50 in. (110.50 cm.) (height) by 30.91 in. (78.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Finch College Museum of Art, The Richard H. Rush Collection, February 25- April 25, 1971, cat. no. 20, reproduced (as Titian). Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College Hood Museum of Art, From Titian to Sargent: Dartmouth Alumni Friends and Collection, September- November, 1987 (as Titian).

Literature:

R. Pallucchini, Tiziano, Florence 1969, vol. I, p. 325, vol. II, reproduced, plates 525, 526 (detail), as by Titian, as dateable 1570/75; H. Goldfarb, From Titian to Sargent: Dartmouth Alumni Friends and Collection, 1987, reproduced on the cover, pp. 3-4, reproduced, fig. 10. (as by Titian); A. Rothe, "Titian's Penitent Magdalen in the J. Paul Getty Museum", in Studi Tizianeschi, I, Spring 2003, pp. 39-42; N.H.J.Hall, "A Taste for Italian Art in Holland," in Hall and Knight, 2001, p. 24, illus. (as by Titian); W.R. Rearick, "Le 'Maddalene Penitenti' di Tiziano," in Arte Veneta, vol. 58, 2001 (but published in 2003), p. 36, and footnotes17 and 36 (as by Titian with studio, known only from photographs, but confusing the support and provenance of the present work); P. Humfrey, Titian: the Complete Paintings, New York 2007, p. 328 (under the entry for the Hermitage picture, cat. no. 255, as one of a group of works "by Titian and/or his assistants).

Provenance:

Possibly Marten Kretzer, Amsterdam, by 1648 (see note); English collection (according to Pallucchini); With Ettore Sestieri, Rome, from whom purchased by; With Leger Galleries, London purchased by; Dr. James and Julia Rush, 1971; By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, New York, June 2, 1989, lot 47; Ishizuka collection, Tokyo, Japan from whom acquired by the present collector.