Large Antique Religious Bronze of Repentant Mary Magdalene after Canova

Description

An Unusual Antique bronze model of Repentant Mary Magdalene after Canova
An unusually large Antique bronze model of Repentant Mary Magdalene after Italian sculptor Antonio Canova*.
This model, which probably dates from the late 19th century does not include the skull present in Canova's version but is otherwise quite identical. The finish has a dark brown patina with age appropriate flaws such as surface oxidation. It might have had a wooden cross lying across her lap. This bronze is otherwise in very good age appropriate condition and quite stunning. We have not found another model of this size, and very few smaller bronze models have come on the market.
The
Penitent Magdalene
is a marble sculpture of
Mary Magdalene
by
Antonio Canova
, about 90 cm high, known in two final versions, now in Genoa and St Petersburg.
The original version of 1793-1796 was praised at the
Salon of 1808
, the first of Canova's works to be a success there.
[1]
It was acquired by the French commissar Juliot and in 1808 passed into the hands of the Milanese collector Comte Masseo conte
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
and, after his death, to signor d'Aguado.
[2]
It was acquired by Raffaele de Ferrari, Duca di Galliera and displayed in his palace in Paris, before being left to the collection of the city of Genoa in 1889 by his wife Maria Brignole-Sale de Ferrari - it is now in the Palazzo Doria-Tursi, part of the
Strada Nuova Museums
in
Genoa
.
Size
: 14 3/4" H x 9" W x 11" D
37.5 cm H x 23 cm W x 28 cm D
Condition
: Good to very good  age-appropriate condition. Please look at the detail photos.
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