Benedetto da Maiano, Italian, Florence, circa 1485-95
Mary Magdalene
Estimate:
150,000
Benedetto da Maiano
Maiano 1441 – 1497 Florence
Italian, Florence, circa 1485-95
Mary Magdalene
polychrome terracotta
31 ½ by 19 ⅛ by 12 ⅝ in.; 80 by 48.5 by 32 cm.
BJ8CVSome chipping and abrasions to paint throughout. Loss to her left thumb and right hand. Tips of three fingers on left hand are restored. Small loss to end of nose well restored. Some firing cracks. There is a plaster fill on a portion of the reverse for support. Restorations throughout including on right arm and the drapery covering it, some strands of hair and on underside. Paint refreshed. Beautifully modeled.
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Private Collection, Monte Carlo;
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York;
From whom acquired, 2002.
F. Caglioti, La Scultura del Quattrocento e dei primi decenni de Cinquecento, in 'Storia della Calabria nel Rinascimento', Rome, 2002, pp. 977-1042;
T. Mozzati, Il Cotto dell'Impruneta: Maestri del Rinascimento e le Fornaci di Oggi exhibition catalogue, Firenze, Impruneta-Basilico e Chiostri di Santa Maria, Loggiati del Pellegrino, March 26 - July 26, 2006, pp. 90-91 (illus.);
F. Caglioti, ‘Nuove terrecotte di Benedetto da Maiano,’ in Prospettiva. Revista di storia dell’arte e moderna, extract 126-127, April – July 2007, pp. 15-46, figs. 27-28 and 33-34 (illus.).