Lot 135: CARLO CALIARI, CALLED CARLETTO | The Penitent Magdalene in a Landscape

oil on canvas, in a Northumberland carved and gilt wood frame

126.4 by 97.7 cm.; 49 3/4 by 38 1/2 in.

oil on canvas, in a Northumberland carved and gilt wood frame

The canvas has been relined. The paint surface is secure and very clean. There are traces of good quality impasto, which are particularly visible in the foliage. The colours remain strong. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals very small scattered retouchings throughout the flesh tones and the drapery. There are also very small scattered retouchings in the sky and a larger area of retouching in the foliage at the upper left. All these retouchings are very delicate and difficult to discern with the naked eye. The landscape and the tree are free of retouchings. Overall the work is in good condition. The work is offered in a gilt carved frame with a carved decoration of leaves and vines, in excellent condition.
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Newcastle, 1887, no. 825 (lent by Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland);
Sarasota, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Paolo Veronese. A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, 7 December 2012 – 14 April 2013, p. 266, cat. no. 69;
Verona, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Paolo Veronese, L'illusione della Realita, 5 July – 5 October 2014, cat. no. 6.16.

T. Barberi, Catalogo ragionato della Galleria Camuccini in Roma descritto da Tito Barberi, unpublished Ms. catalogue of c. 1851 held in the Alnwick Castle Archives, listed under 'Camera Quarta', no. 1;
G. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London 1857, p. 469 (as CARLO CAGLIARI.-The repentant Magdalen. Signed. From the Casa Lante. A good picture for him);
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813–1912, vol. V, second addenda and indexes, London 1915, p. 2226;
Helen, 8th Duchess of Northumberland, Catalogue of Pictures in the Collection of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, privately printed in 1930, cat. no. 56, reproduced plate 39, and also reproduced in a photograph taken by the Duchess (no. 15), as hanging in the Music Room at Alnwick Castle.

Casa Lante, Rome, from which acquired by the brothers Pietro (1760–1833) and Vincenzo Camuccini (1771–1844), for their collection in Rome;
Sold by Vincenzo’s son, Giovanni Battista Camuccini, as part of a group of 74 pictures to Algernon Percy (1792–1865), 4th Duke of Northumberland, in 1853;
Thence by family descent at AlnwickCastle until sold by Hugh Algernon Percy (1914–88), 10th Duke of Northumberland;
With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, from whom purchased by the father of the present owner in the 1950s.
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady of Title'), London, Sotheby’s, 5 July 2006, lot 43, and acquired shortly afterwards by the present collector.