Lot 80
  • 80

Circle of Luca Cambiaso

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Luca Cambiaso
  • Mary Magdalene Renouncing the Vanities of the World
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Possibly Bevignate Alessi, Perugia, by whom donated to the Capuchin church outside the Porta del Sole, where last recorded by Lione Pascoli in 1730 (see Literature);
With Colnaghi, New York, 1998, no. 4 (as by Cambiaso).

Literature

Probably G.F. Morelli, Brevi notizie delle pitture e sculture che adornano l'augusta città di Perugia, 1683, p. 79;
Probably L. Pascoli, Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni, Rome 1730, vol. I, pp. 286-87;
Probably R. Soprani & C.G. Ratti, Vite de' pittori, scultori, e architetti genovesi di Rafaelle Soprani con note, e continuazioni, Genoa 1768, vol. I, p. 95, note a;
Probably B. Suida Manning & W. Suida, Luca Cambiaso. La Vita e le Opere, Milan 1958, p. 60 and pp. 144-45.

Catalogue Note

A smaller, upright, version of this subject hangs in the monastery of the church of the Padri Somaschi all Maddalena in Genoa (see B. Suida Manning et al., under Literature, p. 60). No other versions of this rare subject are known by Cambiaso and it is on this basis that the present work can probably be identified with the painting formerly in the Capuchin church in Perugia.