An woven tapestry panel with the penitent Mary Magdalene - image-1

Lot 806 Dα

An woven tapestry panel with the penitent Mary Magdalene

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

An woven tapestry panel with the penitent Mary Magdalene

Wool and silk tapestry depicting a demi-figure in a landscape. With later frame H 85.5, W 70.5 cm.
Rome, Manifattura die San Michele, probably after Guido Reni, third quarter 18th C.

This tapestry can be attributed to weavers at the San Michele manufactory in Rome, which was founded by Pope Clemens XI in 1710 as an addition to the wool and dyeing workshops of the San Michele a Ripa orphanage. The tapestries produced there were not only technically ambitious but also woven from precious materials including gold thread, and were occasionally used as diplomatic gifts. The weavers drew their motifs from the religious paintings in the Vatican collections, often using depictions of the Evangelists Saint Peter and Saint Paul, princes of the Apostles and patron saints of Rome, but also portraits of Popes and Saints. Many of these tapestries were small format works, as demonstrated by the existing and published examples.

Provenance

Private collection, Rome.

Literature

Cf. Göbel, Wandteppiche, II. Teil. Die romanischen Länder, Leipzig 1928, illus. 460.
Cf. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Wien-Cologne-Weimar 1995, p. 295 f.