Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ZSUZSANNA DOBOS: New Additions to the Art and Research of Girolamo Troppa

3 ATTRIBUTED TO GIROLAMO TROPPA, THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARES painting (fig. 2).

13 The sheet is included among the doubtful attributions in the volume presenting Preti's graphical œuvre.

14 Compared to the drawing, Troppa only made minor modifications to the painting: he changed Adam's basket for a sack, slightly altered Eve's posture and garment, as well as Cain's hands, and brought the still-life composed of two jugs and two plates slightly closer into the foreground. Although in his known studies made to similar compositions, Troppa also always paid great attention to the landscape, in this sketch he confined himself to outlining the Biblical figures, without any elaboration of the figures' environment. Similarly to Troppa's painted œuvre, his graphical production also presents a heterogeneous picture. Gaulli's influence can be detected in the ductus of the Düsseldorf drawing, in the elongated proportions of the figures, a fact alluded to by Maurizio Marini in his monograph on Preti's graphical œuvre." The capricious contours of the forms, drawn with deft pen strokes, and the patches applied among the broken lines emphatically suggesting the plasticity of the