LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

38.90 in. (98.80 cm.) (height) by 49.53 in. (125.80 cm.) (width)

Literature:

H.A. Tipping, 'Edgcote, Northamptonshire', in. Country Life , XLVII, 1201, January 1920, reproduced p. 51;. H.A. Tipping, English Homes. Period V, vol. I, 1921, p. 296, reproduced pl. 256; . R. Klessmann in Johann Liss , exh. cat., Rathaus, Augsburg, 2 August - 2 November 1975, and Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 December 1975 - 7 March 1976, p. 86, under cat. no. A17; . R. Klessmann, 'Johann Liss's Temptation of the Magdalene ', in T he Burlington Magazine , CXXXVIII, no. 138, March 1996, pp. 187-9, reproduced; . R. Klessmann, Johann Liss. A monograph and catalogue raisonné , Doornspijk 1999, p. 143, cat. no. 14, reproduced pls 11 and 12; . A. Bader, Chemistry and Art. Further adventures of a Chemist Collector , London 2008, pp. 99-104

Provenance:

Possibly Richard Chauncey (d. 1760), Edgcote, Northamptonshire, and there framed as the overmantel in the former Billiard Room during the re-modelling of the house between 1747-52;. Possibly his son, William Henry Chauncey (d. 1788); . By inheritance with Edgcote to his brother-in-law, Thomas Carter; . Possibly by descent to his granddaughter Julia Aubrey, who married William Ralph Cartwright (1771-1847) of Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire; . Possibly inherited with Edgcote by his son by his second wife Richard Aubrey Cartwright (1811-1891); . Thence by descent to his grandson Ralph Cartwright (1880-1936); . Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Family Trust'), London, Christie's, 9 December 1994, lot 96; . Acquired in 1995 for the present collection