Pietà with Saint Francis and Saint Mary Magdalene
Pietà with Saint Francis and Saint Mary Magdalene is a 1602-1607 oil on canvas painting by
It is thought to be the work referred to in a letter by Giovanni Battista Agucchi reproduced in Carlo Cesare Malvasia's Felsina Pittrice – other references in Malvasia date the letter to 1607.[2] Agucchi's words suggest he was referring to a recent work by Annibal and – though the letter does not refer explicitly to the work now in the Louvre – the context suggests that the Louvre work is the only one to which Agucchi could be referring.[3] A second undated letter by Agucchi explicitly refers to the Pietà in the Mattei chapel, whilst another passage in Felsina confirms that that Pietà was one of Carracci's last works but states that others had dated the work much earlier.
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References
- ^ "Catalogue entry". Musée du Louvre (in French). 1600.
- ^ a b c d e Donald Posner, Annibale Carracci: A Study in the reform of Italian Painting around 1590, London, 1971, Vol. II, N. 136, pp. 60-61.
- ^ Denis Mahon, Studies in Seicento Art and Theory, 1947, p. 290
- ^ "Catalogue entry".
- ^ (in Italian) Giulio Bora and Dominique Radrizzani, Cinq siècles de dessins: collections du Musée Jenisch, 1997, pp. 36-39.