The Property of a Nobleman
Agostino Masucci
The death of the Magdalene
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The Property of a Nobleman
Agostino Masucci
Rome 1691–1758
The death of the Magdalene
inscribed along the upper stretcher: Masucci 250 / Deposi [...] o / Colonna
oil on canvas, unlined
unframed: 146.7 x 97.2 cm.; 57¾ x 38¼ in.
framed: 166.1 x 117.8 cm.; 65⅜ x 46⅜ in.
Possibly Colonna Collection, Palazzo Colonna, Rome (according to an inscription on the reverse).
We are grateful to Dott. Francesco Petrucci for proposing an attribution to Agostino Masucci on the basis of digital images. He believes that Masucci was inspired by a late composition attributed to Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, preserved in the Church of San Lorenzo, Zagarolo.1
1 A. Negro, in L'arte per i papi e per i principi nella campagna romana grande pittura del '600 e del '700, exh. cat., Rome 1990, pp. 134–135, no. 45, reproduced in colour p. 129, pl. 13.
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