The Repentant Magdalene (Cagnacci) Explained

The Repentant Magdalene
Other Language 1:	Italian
Other Title 1:	La Maddalena penitente
Artist:	Guido Cagnacci
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Height Metric:	229.2
Width Metric:	266.1
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
Museum:	Norton Simon Museum
City:	Pasadena

The Repentant Magdalene, also called The Conversion of Mary Magdalene, is an oil painting of the early 1660s by the Baroque Italian painter Guido Cagnacci. It shows Mary Magdalene, beside her remonstrating sister Martha, at the moment she repents, echoed by an allegorical pairing of Virtue, an angel, chasing out Vice, a devil. The painting is at the collection of the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadena.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Provenance

The painting's owners have been:

• Dukes of Mantua by 1665, Duke Carlo II, villa Marmirolo and villa Favorita
• Duke Ferdinand Carlo Gonzaga, 10th and last Duke of Mantua in 1706, transported to Venice 1707; upon his death, transported 5 July 1708 to Padua, (sale, Venice, 1711,)
• purchased by Christian Cole, and transported to England in April, 1711
• Henry Bentinck (1st Duke of Portland by 1716), Bulstrode House; Harcourt House by 1854
• Dukes of Portland, Welbeck Abbey and London
• by descent to Lady Anne Bentinck, Welbeck Abbey (sold at Christie's, London, 11 December 1981, lot 52)
• P.D. Colnaghi & Co., London
• Norton Simon Art Foundation

See also

• Penitent Magdalene (Caravaggio)
• Penitent Magdalene (Titian, 1565)

External links

• "The Repentant Magdalene". Norton Simon Museum. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Repentant Magdalene . . 12 March 2017.
2. Book: The Art of Guido Cagnacci . Salomon, Xavier F. . 2017 . Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd . 94–100 . 978-1785510571.
3. Web site: Cagnacci's Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum . . November 2016 . 12 March 2017.
4. Web site: Cagnacci's Masterpiece The Repentant Magdalene Comes to the Frick this Fall . . 12 March 2017.