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GOLDFARB, HILLIARD T.: A Mysterious Beauty and a French Attribution: The Sleeping Magdalen of Budapest

24. Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi): Repentant Magdalen. Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphilj Its distinctive iconographie character, as well as its location in a celebrated private Roman collection suggest that the Budapest painting was executed by an artist who was in Rome in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. The Budapest Sleeping Magdalen entered the national collections from the Esterházy collection in 1870. It had earlier borne an old but unconvincing attribution to Paolo Veronese, undoubtedly on the basis of its superficial similarity to the tenebrous lighting and richly attired figures in such paintings as hisLucretia and Judith in Vienna.

6 Pigler asserted in 1967 that the extraordinary pose of the sleeping girl is derived from a lost painting by Veronese, preserved in a print by Moyreau. In truth, however, the pose is only generally related, as the subject of the Veronese work, apparently nZingarella or 6 The painting bears a Veronese attribution in Catalog der Gemähide Galleric des durchlauchtigsten Fürsten Nicolaus Estherhäzy von Galantha zu Laxenburg bey Wien, Eisenstadt 1812, no. 10.