Lot 236: Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole Bologna 1654 - 1719 , The Penitent Magdalene

oil on canvas

measurements note 36 by 33 in.; 91.4 by 83.2 cm.

Nottingham, City of Nottingham Art Museum, Pictures from the Clumber Collection , cat. no. 69 (as by Trevisiani);
London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Some 17th Century Italian Pictures , 1942, cat. no. 16;
London, Arcade Gallery, Exhibition of the 18th Century Paintings from Venice and Bergamo , February 11 - March 5, 1954, cat. no. 15, reproduced (as by Trevisiani);
New York Finch College Museum of Art, Baroque Painters of Bologna and Neighbouring Cities , 1961, cat. no. 21;
Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Italian Renaissance and Baroque from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. , December 2, 1967 - May 15, 1968, no. 49, reproduced.

C. Thiem, Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Bologna 1990, p. 92, cat. Q8, reproduced.

Duke of Newcastle, Clumber House;
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Norfolk, Virginia;
G. Baherstani;
His sale, New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, March 6, 1971, lot 19 where purchased for $850;
Purchased circa 1972 by an American private collector;
By whom (anonymously) sold, New York, Sotheby's, January 28, 2000, lot 65, there purchased by the present collector.

Thiem (see Literature) notes the debt of the present composition to a painting of the same subject commissioned by the Prince of Liechtenstein in the 1680s from dal Sole's master, Lorenzo Pasinelli. Also evident, is the influence of Guido Reni, whose classicizing treatments of the Magdalene must certainly have been known to dal Sole.