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Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, il Giampietrino (active Milan c. 1495-1540)
Lot 269

Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, il Giampietrino (active Milan c. 1495-1540)

Mary Magdalene

Closed27 January 2010

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Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, il Giampietrino (active Milan c. 1495-1540)
Mary Magdalene
oil on panel
24¾ x 19 in. (63 x 48.3 cm.)

Aldobrandini Collection, Rome, as 'Portrait of Artemisia attributed to Leonardo da Vinci'.
Wickham Flower, Great Tangley Manor, Guildford, Surrey and London, by 1898; (+) Christie's, 17 December 1904, lot 50.
with Agnew's, London.
Sir George Donaldson (1845-1915), London, by 1911.
Sir John Frecheville Ramsden, 6th Bt. (1877-1958), Bulstrode House, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; Christie's, 27 and 30 May 1932, lot 72, from whom acquired by Coulette as agent for
Godfrey Locker-Lampson (1875-1946), London.
Somerset Struben de Chair (1911-1995), St. Isyth's Priory, Essex and London; Sotheby's, 19 November 1952, lot 43.

Specialist note

The present work most likely dates to one of the earliest phases of Giampietrino's work when he was particularly influenced by Marco d'Oggiono, one of Leonardo's pupils (see C. Geddo, 'Le Pale d'arte del Giampietrino: ipotesi per un percorso stilistico', Arte lombarda, no. 101, 1992, pp. 67-82). Related paintings by Giampietrino from this period include two of the Madonna and Child (Rome, Galleria Borghese, oil on panel, 30¾ x 23 5/8 in.; and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, oil on panel, 26 3/8 x 21¼ in.). The early provenance records for the present lot include it in the Aldobrandini collection, where it was attributed to Leonardo and sometimes identified as a Portrait of Artemesia.