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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Workshop of Frans Floris, possibly the young Frans Pourbus the Elder

The Penitent Magdalene

Auction Closed

May 20, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Workshop of Frans Floris, possibly the young Frans Pourbus the Elder

Antwerp 1519/20 - 1570

The Penitent Magdalene


oil on panel

panel: 48 ¼ by 31 ⅝ in.; 122.6 by 80.3 cm. 

framed: 55 ½ by 38 ⅞ in.; 141 by 98.7 cm. 

This figure compares closely to the kneeling Magdalene in the central panel of the Triptych of the Penitent Sinners (Church of Saint Léonard in Zoutleeuw), painted in the second half of the 1560s by Frans Floris and his workshop.1  It is possible that the present panel was made in Frans Floris' workshop, and the handling and coloration seems to recall that of the young Frans Pourbus the Elder, who was in Floris' studio by 1564. 


1. See R. Suykerbuyk, "Reformation, renovation, and commemoration: the religious patronage of a Brabantine Lord (Zoutleeuw, 1548-1558)," in Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, vol. 39, no. 1/2, 2017, pp. 57-58, reproduced fig. 15. Or see C. van de Velde, Frans Floris: Leven en Werken, Brussles 1975, vol. I, pp. 328-330, cat. no. 188-192, reproduced vol. II, plate 99.