Lot 108. Giampietrino, probably Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli (active 1495 - 1540), Saint Mary Magdelene. Oil on panel. Relined. 71.1 x 53 cm. Four wax seals and two paper labels on the reverse. Sold for: € 220.000 (Estimate € 180.000 - 250.000). © HAMPEL Fine Art Auctions Munich

Provenance: According to Cristina Geddo, who published the painting in 2009, a label formerly on the back of the panel indicated its provenance from a count’s gallery in Milan, put up for sale in 1814 - 1820. The present painting was offered for sale at Christie’s New York on 30 January 2013 under lot 116.

Literature: Cristina Geddo, Una nuova “Maddalena” del Gianpietrino, in: Il più dolce lavorare che sia; Cinisello Balsamo 2009, pp. 291-297.

Note: Like many painters in the circle of Leonardi da Vinci and later followers, the painting also shows his respective stylistic features. There are also paintings with almost identical subjects that show the collaboration of the two painters, such as Saint Mary Magdalene, oil on panel, painted 1515 - 1520 by Leonardo da Vinci and Rizzoli in the Cathedral of Burgos, Spain; in this work, however, the Saint is looking up and out of the painting.

This object has been individually compared to the information in the Art Loss Register data bank and is not registered there as stolen or missing.