AFTER GUIDO RENI | SAINT MARY MAGDALENE

A copy, in reverse, after Guido Reni's original 1626-27 canvas formerly in the Barberini collects ion in Rome, and recorded by Stephen Pepper in his 1988 catalouge raisonné of Guido's œuvre as in the collects ion of George Englil, Freeport, Bahamas.¹ Guido returned to the composition in 1633 and adapted the format to depict the saint full-length in his celebrated canvas painted for Cardinal Antonio Santacroce, now in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.²

^1 S. Pepper, Guido Reni, L'Opera Completa, Novara 1988, pp. 335-36, cat. no. 28, reproduced pl. IX.

2 Pepper 1988, p. 278, cat. no. 130, reproduced fig. 121.