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Property from a Private Collection, New York
The Penitent Magdalene
Auction Closed
May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, New York
Workshop of Frans Floris, possibly the young Frans Pourbus the Elder
Antwerp 1519/20 - 1570
The Penitent Magdalene
oil on panel
panel: 48 ¼ by 31 ⅝ in.; 122.6 by 80.3 cm.
framed: 55 ½ by 38 ⅞ in.; 141 by 98.7 cm.
This figure compares closely to the kneeling Magdalene in the central panel of the Triptych of the Penitent Sinners (Church of Saint Léonard in Zoutleeuw), painted in the second half of the 1560s by Frans Floris and his workshop.1 It is possible that the present panel was made in Frans Floris' workshop, and the handling and coloration seems to recall that of the young Frans Pourbus the Elder, who was in Floris' studio by 1564.
1. See R. Suykerbuyk, "Reformation, renovation, and commemoration: the religious patronage of a Brabantine Lord (Zoutleeuw, 1548-1558)," in Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, vol. 39, no. 1/2, 2017, pp. 57-58, reproduced fig. 15. Or see C. van de Velde, Frans Floris: Leven en Werken, Brussles 1975, vol. I, pp. 328-330, cat. no. 188-192, reproduced vol. II, plate 99.