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Ottavio Vannini

The Penitent Magdalene

Auction Closed

March 22, 07:15 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Ottavio Vannini

Florence 1585 - 1644

The Penitent Magdalene


oil on canvas

unframed: 89.4 x 73.5 cm; 35¼ x 29 in.

framed: 97.2 x 81.8 cm; 38¼ x 32¼ in

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Private collection by 1995;
Where acquired by the present owner by 1996.
Pontedera, Museo Piaggio, Luce e Ombra. Caravaggismo e naturalismo nella pittura toscana del Seicento, 18 March – 12 June 2005, no. 13.
R. Contini, 'Bernini, V., Martinelli e Vanni: congiunture tosco-romane nel Seicento', in Antichità viva, XXXIV, 1995, p. 41, reproduced fig. 2;
S. Bellesi, Cesare Dandini, Turin 1996, p. 36 n. 13, reproduced fig. 30s;
S. Bellesi in Luce e Ombra. Caravaggismo e naturalismo nella pittura toscana del Seicento, P. Carofano (ed.), exh. cat., Pontedera 2005, pp. 38–40, no. 13, reproduced in colour;
F. Baldassari, La pittura del Seicento a Firenze: indice degli artisti e delle loro opere, Milan 2009, p. 693;
S. Bellesi, Catalogo dei pittori fiorentini del '600 e '700. Biografie e opere, Florence 2009, vol. I, p. 267 and vol. III, p. 355, no. 1625, reproduced. 

This work is described by Sandro Bellesi as one of Ottavio Vannini's most accomplished paintings, datable to the 1630s, towards the end of his career. Another almost identical version is in the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, Rome.1


 1 Bellesi 2005, p. 38, reproduced.


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