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Materials:

marble

Size Notes:

75 x 176 x 84.5 cm.

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1856.Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857.

Literature:

BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Teotochi Albrizzi, Opere di scultura e plastica di Antonio Canova descritte da Isabella Teotochi nata Albrizzi, I-IV, Pisa, 1823 (and subsequent editions).Memoria, in Biblioteca canoviana ossia Raccolta delle migliori prose, e de pi scelti componimenti poetici, sulla vita, sulle opere ed in morte di Antonio Canova, I-IV, Venice, 1823, pp. 149-150.M. Missirini, Vita di Antonio Canova libri quattro compilati da Melchior Missirini, Prato, 1824.G. Rosini, Saggio sulla vita e sulle opere di Antonio Canova, Pisa, 1825, p. 101.L. Cicognara, Biografia di Antonio Canova scritta dal cav. Leopoldo Cicognara. Aggiuntivi. I. Il Catalogo completo delle opere del Canova. II. Un saggio delle sue lettere familiari. III. La storia della sua ultima malattia scritta dal dott. Paolo Zannini, Venice, 1823, pp. 37, 67. A.C. Quatremre de Quincy, Canova et ses ouvrages ou Mmoires historiques sur la vie et les travaux d ce clbre artiste par M. Quatremre de Quincy, Paris, 1834.J. 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Provenance:

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828) for Fife House, Whitehall, commissioned from the artist for 1,200. By descent to his brotherCharles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851), Fife House, Whitehall.Christies, Auction at Fife House, Whitehall, 23 April 1852, where the Magdalene appeared as lot 120. Christie's, London, 2 June 1856, lot 57.Purchased at the above sale byWilliam Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817-1885), Witley Court, Worcestershire, for 1,000. By descent to his sonWilliam Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (1867-1932).Purchased from the above along with Witley Court and its contents in 1920 bySir Herbert Smith, Bt. (1872-1943). Jackson Stops & Staff auctioneers, sale on the premises at Witley Court, Worcestershire, sold under the direction of Sir Herbert Smith, Bt., 27-30 September and 3-5 October 1938, lot 804.Purchased at the above sale by Mrs Violet Van der Elst, Harlaxton Manor, for 40 guineas.Sold by the above with her house 80 Addison Rd, London, in May 1959 to Jonathan Manasseh, London.Sothebys, Summers Place Auctions, Billingshurst, Garden Statuary and Architectural Items, 21 and 22 May 2002, lot 712,Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.