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Lot 29

Gaspar de Crayer
(Antwerp 1584-1669 Ghent)
The Penitent Magdalen unframed

6 December 2017, 15:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Gaspar de Crayer (Antwerp 1584-1669 Ghent)

The Penitent Magdalen
oil on canvas
91.8 x 71.1cm (36 1/8 x 28in).
unframed

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Fievez, Brussels, 6-7 December 1935, lot 42
Sale, Christie's, New York, 17 October 2006, lot 288

Literature
H. Vlieghe, Gaspar de Crayer, Sa vie et ses oeuvres, Brussels, 1972, vol. I, p. 247, no. A237, vol.II, pl. 220 (as 'whereabouts unknown')


The present work is published as 'location unknown' in Vlieghe's 1972 publication on de Crayer. It relates to a larger version in the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes (oil on canvas, 117 x 98cm., see: Vlieghe, ibid, no. A236).

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