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

28. Claude Vignon: David with a Head of Goliath. New York, The Suida-Manning Collection variously to Ligozzi and even, by Pigler, unconvincingly to Vignon), reveal an artist essentially tied to Cigoli's style, with a fascination similar to our artist in surfaces, but a far cruder and less profoundly Caravaggesque handling of figures, proportions and lighting.

17 I first had the opportunity to study the Sleeping Magdalen in Budapest in 1999, and immediately agreed with the impression of Vilmos Tátrai that its creator could well be a French artist working in Rome about 1620. An obvious candidate among several 17 See reproductions of these works by Coccapani in Contini, loc.cit. (n. 16) figs. 58-60. Cantelli, G., Repertorio della pitturafiorentina del seicento, Fiesole 1983, reproduces a number of works as by Coccapani (figs. 147-160) now attributed to Rosi (e.g. the Magdalen, fig. 151, Seena di stregoneria, fig. 152, Ecce Homo. fig. 157, Moses and the Daughters ofJethro, figs. 159-160, and David [attr. ?1, fig. 156). The Corsini picture is fig. 147.