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

29. Claude Vignon: Tobias and the Angel. New York, The Forbs Magazine Collection mentioned by Tátrai in his text commentary to the catalogue for the Montreal 2002 exhibition

18 was Claude Vignon (1593-1670). Rejecting the attributions to Fetti and Coccapani, Tátrai indicated that the Caravaggism of the Budapest painting and its affinity with works by Borgianni, Vouet and Vignon, indicated a Roman origin, by an Italian or French artist active there. After further study of the work in Montreal, I became convinced that the Vignon attribution is correct. The painting would have to date to the years encompassed by Vignon's Italian period or immediately following his return to France (ca. 1617-1623) because of the more pronounced idiosyncratic mannerisms that affect his style afterwards. In fact, as I will outline. I think that the chronology can 18 Tátrai. V., From the Quattrocento to the Settecento, in Italian Old Masters from Raphael to Tiepolo, the Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) Connaissance des arts (special issue) 176 (2002) 62.