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Studies for Saint Mary Magdalene
Maker
(artist)
1452-1519
1452-1519
Title
Studies for Saint Mary Magdalene
Date of Production
(circa) 1480 - 1482
Medium
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper; both studies framed in brown ink and a later framing line in graphite around the whole sheet, partially trimmed
Dimensions
Height: 13.9 cm
Width: 8 cm
Width: 8 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.80
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Leonardo da Vinci was a tireless draughtsman for whom drawing was an essential means of developing compositional ideas. In these two sketches he explored the ambitiously twisted half-length figure of Mary Magdalene in preparation for a devotional painting, a project otherwise only documented in works by his followers. Starting with the larger version he rapidly added the more summary drawing below. There the saint gazes directly at the viewer whilst lifting the lid off a jar of oil. This attribute refers to her anointing Christ’s feet.
Provenance
Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445; ceded by his executors to Samuel Woodburn (London), 1835; Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 1501; purchased there by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938); purchased from the Fenwick estate by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1946; Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Exhibition History
Leonardo da Vinci, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 24/10/2019-24/02/2020
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012 ...More
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National Gallery, London, 09/11/2011-05/02/2012
A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982
Leonardo Quincentenary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1952 ...Less
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012 ...More
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National Gallery, London, 09/11/2011-05/02/2012
A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982
Leonardo Quincentenary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1952 ...Less
Literature
Leonardo da Vinci, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2019 - 2020
cat. no. 48
also on p. 121
ill. on p. 121
dated c. 1478-1480
Bambach, Carmen C., Leonardo da Vinci: rediscovered, New Haven 2019
vol. I, pp. 200
fig. 3.3 on p. 200
dated c. 1478-82
Léonard de Vinci, Musée du Louvre, 2019 Paris: Louvre éditions: Hazan 2019
p. 121 ...More
La fortuna della Scapiliata di Leonardo da Vinci, Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta, Parma, Italy, 18 May - 12 Aug. 2019, 2019
pp. 34-35
Joannides, Paul, 'An Attempt to Situate Titian's Paintings of the "Penitent Magdalen" in Some Kind of Order' in 'Artibus et Historiae', Vol. 37, No. 73 (2016), pp. 157-194
p. 159, 190; fn. 3
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, Frick Collection, New York and Courtauld Gallery, London London 2012-2013
cat. no. 2
ill. on p. 41
dated c. 1480-82; entry author: Denise Allen
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National Gallery, London, 2011-12
cat. no. 9
ill. on p. 109
dated c. 1486-88; entry author: Luke Syson
Feinberg, Larry J., The young Leonardo: art and life in fifteenth-century Florence, Cambridge 2011
pp. 174-78
Kemp, Martin and Julia Barone, I disegni di Leonardo da Vinci e della sua cerchia nelle collezioni della Gran Bretagna, Florence 2010
no. 27 on pp. 73-74
Leonardo and the European Genius, Koekelberg Basilica, Brussels, 2007-08, 2007
pp. 14, 30 under no. 2, 60 under no. 10
pp. 14, 21
dated 1508-10
Pardo, Mary, 'The subject of Savoldo's Magdalene' in 'Art Bulletin', Mar. 1989 - pp. 67-91; 71, 1
pp. 80-83?
fig. 10?
a reprint of Pardo 1989, but unsure if page numbers remained the same
Pedretti, Carlo, 'La mostra "Genio e visione in Terra Marchigiana" nella Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona' in 'L'Osservatore Romano', 7-8 Nov. 2005
p. 3
ill. on p. 3
Museo civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Feb. 14-May 2, 2004; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 27-Aug. 15, 2004, Pittori della realtà: le ragioni di una rivoluzione: da Foppa e Leonardo a Caravaggio e Ceruti, 2004
p. 99
entry author: Andrea Bayer; p. 78 in English version of catalogue
Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2004
p.78
referenced in cat no. 78
'Drawing the Boundaries' in 'Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan-Mar 2003 New Haven and London 2003, pp. 141-54
p. 142
fig. 69 on p. 142
Zöllner, Frank, Leonardo da Vinci: the complete paintings and drawings, Cologne and London 2003
p. 331, no. 126
Christie's, London, Old Master pictures, 9 July 1999
under lot 199
Guttmann, Nathalie, The Leonardo da Vinci Magdalene with its studio versions and an overview of its Netherlandish antecedents and its impact on European art, MA thesis, California State University, Northridge 1997
whole thesis
ill.
only portion of thesis in file
Kemp, Martin, rev. ed. of 2nd ed. (1946) by A.E. Popham, A.E. The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, London, 1994
pp. 18-19, no. 29A on p. 109
pl. 29A
erroneously listed as belonging to the British Museum
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 45
pp. 98, 183
ill. on p. 99
dated c. 1480
Jones, Pamela M., 'Bernardo Luini's Magdalene from the Collection of Federico Borromeo' in 'Studies in the History of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington', 1990 - pp. 67-72; 24
pp. 69-70
fig. 3 on p. 69
Pardo, Mary, 'The subject of Savoldo's Magdalene' in 'Art Bulletin', Mar. 1989 - pp. 67-91; 71, 1
pp. 80-83
fig. 10 on p. 82
Trutty-Coohill, Patricia, 'Narrative to icon: the San Diego Luini and Leonardo's language of the dumb' in 'Achademia Leonardi Vinci: Journal of Leonardo Studies and Bibliography of Vinciana', 1988 - pp. 27-31; 1
pp. 28, 30
fig. 5
dated c. 1508
La Maddalena tra sacro e profano. Da Giotto a De Chirico, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 1986
p. 70
Ingenhoff-Danhäuser, Monika, Maria Magdalena. Heilige und Sünderin in der italienischen Renaissance. Studien zur Ikonographie der Heiligen von Leonardo bis Tizian, Tübingen 1984
pp. 17
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 5
ill. on p. 14
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 169
p. 120
ill. on p. 120
Precerutti Garberi, Mercedes, '"Se tu sarai solo tu sarai tutto tuo," L'Eredità di Leonardo in Lombardia' in 'Leonardo e Milano', Milan 1982
p. 201
The legacy of Leonardo: Italian Renaissance paintings from Leningrad, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1979
p. 106
fig. 65 on p. 106
Pedretti, Carlo, Leonardo: a study in chronology and style, London 1973
pp. 104, 184
fig. 118
dated c. 1508
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 80
Shapley, Fern Rusk, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London 1968
p. 136 under K1021
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 80
pl. XXXIV
dated c. 1480
Popham, A.E., 'Sir Thomas Phillipps as a Patron of Artists and a Collector of Pictures and Drawings' in 'The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841-1872 (Phillipps Studies, IV), Cambridge 1956
App. B, p. 224, no. 2 on p. 225
Leonardo Quincentenary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1952
cat. no. 4
p. 14
Popham, A.E., The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, New York 1945
p. 19, no. 29A on p. 105
pl. 29A
Berenson, Bernard, The drawings of the Florentine painters, Chicago and London 1938
vol. II, no. 1013B on p. 110
Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
no. 1 on p. 10
pl. XV
Vasari Society, Second series, 1932; XII
no. 3
with a note by Kenneth Clark ...Less
cat. no. 48
also on p. 121
ill. on p. 121
dated c. 1478-1480
Bambach, Carmen C., Leonardo da Vinci: rediscovered, New Haven 2019
vol. I, pp. 200
fig. 3.3 on p. 200
dated c. 1478-82
Léonard de Vinci, Musée du Louvre, 2019 Paris: Louvre éditions: Hazan 2019
p. 121 ...More
La fortuna della Scapiliata di Leonardo da Vinci, Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta, Parma, Italy, 18 May - 12 Aug. 2019, 2019
pp. 34-35
Joannides, Paul, 'An Attempt to Situate Titian's Paintings of the "Penitent Magdalen" in Some Kind of Order' in 'Artibus et Historiae', Vol. 37, No. 73 (2016), pp. 157-194
p. 159, 190; fn. 3
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, Frick Collection, New York and Courtauld Gallery, London London 2012-2013
cat. no. 2
ill. on p. 41
dated c. 1480-82; entry author: Denise Allen
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National Gallery, London, 2011-12
cat. no. 9
ill. on p. 109
dated c. 1486-88; entry author: Luke Syson
Feinberg, Larry J., The young Leonardo: art and life in fifteenth-century Florence, Cambridge 2011
pp. 174-78
Kemp, Martin and Julia Barone, I disegni di Leonardo da Vinci e della sua cerchia nelle collezioni della Gran Bretagna, Florence 2010
no. 27 on pp. 73-74
Leonardo and the European Genius, Koekelberg Basilica, Brussels, 2007-08, 2007
pp. 14, 30 under no. 2, 60 under no. 10
pp. 14, 21
dated 1508-10
Pardo, Mary, 'The subject of Savoldo's Magdalene' in 'Art Bulletin', Mar. 1989 - pp. 67-91; 71, 1
pp. 80-83?
fig. 10?
a reprint of Pardo 1989, but unsure if page numbers remained the same
Pedretti, Carlo, 'La mostra "Genio e visione in Terra Marchigiana" nella Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona' in 'L'Osservatore Romano', 7-8 Nov. 2005
p. 3
ill. on p. 3
Museo civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Feb. 14-May 2, 2004; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 27-Aug. 15, 2004, Pittori della realtà: le ragioni di una rivoluzione: da Foppa e Leonardo a Caravaggio e Ceruti, 2004
p. 99
entry author: Andrea Bayer; p. 78 in English version of catalogue
Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2004
p.78
referenced in cat no. 78
'Drawing the Boundaries' in 'Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan-Mar 2003 New Haven and London 2003, pp. 141-54
p. 142
fig. 69 on p. 142
Zöllner, Frank, Leonardo da Vinci: the complete paintings and drawings, Cologne and London 2003
p. 331, no. 126
Christie's, London, Old Master pictures, 9 July 1999
under lot 199
Guttmann, Nathalie, The Leonardo da Vinci Magdalene with its studio versions and an overview of its Netherlandish antecedents and its impact on European art, MA thesis, California State University, Northridge 1997
whole thesis
ill.
only portion of thesis in file
Kemp, Martin, rev. ed. of 2nd ed. (1946) by A.E. Popham, A.E. The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, London, 1994
pp. 18-19, no. 29A on p. 109
pl. 29A
erroneously listed as belonging to the British Museum
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 45
pp. 98, 183
ill. on p. 99
dated c. 1480
Jones, Pamela M., 'Bernardo Luini's Magdalene from the Collection of Federico Borromeo' in 'Studies in the History of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington', 1990 - pp. 67-72; 24
pp. 69-70
fig. 3 on p. 69
Pardo, Mary, 'The subject of Savoldo's Magdalene' in 'Art Bulletin', Mar. 1989 - pp. 67-91; 71, 1
pp. 80-83
fig. 10 on p. 82
Trutty-Coohill, Patricia, 'Narrative to icon: the San Diego Luini and Leonardo's language of the dumb' in 'Achademia Leonardi Vinci: Journal of Leonardo Studies and Bibliography of Vinciana', 1988 - pp. 27-31; 1
pp. 28, 30
fig. 5
dated c. 1508
La Maddalena tra sacro e profano. Da Giotto a De Chirico, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 1986
p. 70
Ingenhoff-Danhäuser, Monika, Maria Magdalena. Heilige und Sünderin in der italienischen Renaissance. Studien zur Ikonographie der Heiligen von Leonardo bis Tizian, Tübingen 1984
pp. 17
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 5
ill. on p. 14
The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 169
p. 120
ill. on p. 120
Precerutti Garberi, Mercedes, '"Se tu sarai solo tu sarai tutto tuo," L'Eredità di Leonardo in Lombardia' in 'Leonardo e Milano', Milan 1982
p. 201
The legacy of Leonardo: Italian Renaissance paintings from Leningrad, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1979
p. 106
fig. 65 on p. 106
Pedretti, Carlo, Leonardo: a study in chronology and style, London 1973
pp. 104, 184
fig. 118
dated c. 1508
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 80
Shapley, Fern Rusk, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London 1968
p. 136 under K1021
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 80
pl. XXXIV
dated c. 1480
Popham, A.E., 'Sir Thomas Phillipps as a Patron of Artists and a Collector of Pictures and Drawings' in 'The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841-1872 (Phillipps Studies, IV), Cambridge 1956
App. B, p. 224, no. 2 on p. 225
Leonardo Quincentenary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1952
cat. no. 4
p. 14
Popham, A.E., The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, New York 1945
p. 19, no. 29A on p. 105
pl. 29A
Berenson, Bernard, The drawings of the Florentine painters, Chicago and London 1938
vol. II, no. 1013B on p. 110
Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
no. 1 on p. 10
pl. XV
Vasari Society, Second series, 1932; XII
no. 3
with a note by Kenneth Clark ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445).
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445).
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