UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST
135 Mary Magdalene Transported
by Four Angels
Pen and black ink and white gouache heightening on red-
dish brown grounded paper; H: 17 cm (6J ^6 in.); W: 16.1
cm (6^3 /s in.)
83.GG.35 5
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: At bottom right corner,
unidentified blind collection mark.
PROVENANCE: (Sale of J. H. Cremer and Monsieur
F... , London, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, June 15,
1886); private collection, Switzerland; art market, Paris.
EXHIBITIONS: Dessins des ecoles du nord, Galerie Claude
Aubry, Paris, 1974, no. 34. Le dessin et ses techniques du
XVe au XXe siecle, Musee de Pontoise, December 1981-
February 1982, no. 30 (catalogue by G. Masurovsky
et al.).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.
THIS DRAWING IS CONSIDERED TO BE A SOUTH
German work by C. Andersson, F. Koreny, and J. Row-
lands.^1 It has been compared by Andersson to a represen-
tation of the standing Madonna and Child in the Los An-
geles County Museum of Art (inv. 62.4)^2 which is drawn
in the same combination of pen and ink with white
heightening on prepared paper. The use of both black
and white strokes to model and to form outlines as well
as the construction of parallel and cross-hatching are
found in both studies. The latter feature is reminiscent of
an engraver's technique, as has been pointed out by
A.-M. Logan.^3 Equally, they share a common retardataire
style, harking back in the case of the standing Madonna
to the Master of Flemalle. It is probable that the Mary
Magdalene Transported by Four Angels dates from the last
ten to fifteen years of the fifteenth century, as both An-
dersson and Koreny have suggested.
- Conversations with the author, Malibu, 1982-1985.
- E. Feinblatt, Old Master Drawings from American Collections,
exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, no. 169. - Conversation with the author, 1985.
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