Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Washington, D.C.
Gerard Seghers
Repentant Mary Magdalene
Auction Closed
January 28, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Washington, D.C.
Gerard Seghers
Antwerp 1591 - 1651
Repentant Mary Magdalene
oil on canvas
47 5/8 by 68 7/8 in.; 121 by 174.9 cm.
His sale, 1138 place de Meir, Antwerp, 1 September 1817 and following days, lot 232;
With Joseph Hunin;
Julien van de Weegaete, Ghent;
With Société Labatut, Paris, 1988;
From whom acquired.
J.C. Serre and J. Leegenhoek, Tableaux des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, Société Labatut, Paris 1988, pp. 31-32, no. 9, reproduced (as Seghers);
D. Bieneck, Gerard Seghers, Lingen 1992, p. 259, no. C15, reproduced (as a copy [French?] after a lost original);
A.K. Wheelock, Jr., Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, D.C. 2005, pp. 224-227, reproduced in color (as Seghers).
ENGRAVED
Lucas Vorsterman, inscribed: Amour meus Crucifixus est... Albertina, Vienna, H/II/28/33.
Paris, Société Labatut, Exposition de Tableaux des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 21 September - 20 December 1988, no. 9;
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, La Maddalena tra Sacro e Profano, 1986-87, no cat. no.;
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991, unnumbered;
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Philadelphia, Museum of Art, The Age of Rubens, 22 September 1993 - 24 April 1994 (requested).