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

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

•1 GIROLAMO TROPPA. ASSUMPTION OF THE MAGDALEN. AUG HONED AT FIN ARTE, Ml PAN. MARCH 30. 1982 bodies, link the drawing to the sheets representing The Holy Family with Saint Anne and an Angel in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, and the Lamentation of Abel in the Louvre, Paris. A landscape with the rendition of the Penitent Magdalen was presented to the Old Masters' Gallery in 1969 from a private collection in Geneva. In the 1991 summary catalogue it was included as the work of an unknown Roman painter,

16 and it has not been published since then (fig. 3). Although formerly I myself tended to regard it as Pier Francesco Mola's work, which supposition the Swiss provenance also backed up,

1 I assume it is a characteristic example of Troppa's art and that it belongs to those works (The Assumption of the Magdalen (fig. 4), Saint Sebastian, Angelica and Medoro (fig. 5), Joseph Interpreting Dreams),™ in which the master came surprisingly close to the art of his great Ticinese model. It is no accident that these paintings were all once regarded Mola's works. In the aforementioned paintings the emotional charge of