Penitent Magdalene; verso: Reclining Female Nude
c. 1765
Artists
Dimensions
41.4 x 29.1 cm (16 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Provenance
Possibly Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, Paris and London (possibly his mark, L.1285, lower left); Dr. Benno Geiger, Venice; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7-11 December 1920, lot 405; Henry Scipio Reitlinger, London (without his mark, L.2274a); his estate sale, Sotheby’s, London, 14 April 1954, lot 313 (unsold); sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 November 1954, lot 34; Colnaghi, London (by 1954); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift, inv. no. 1955.100
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