The Magdalen
Only a possible match with the National Gallery work cited or in fact a larger version thereof (compare measurements). The work appears twice in the Van der Doort inventory - in the King's Bedchamber, and then in conservation, WS 191, no 8.
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 191, № 8
Antonio da Correggio
Magdalen, peeled and bubbled up therefore 10 pounds
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Provenance:
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Notes:
in the [King's?] Bedchamber
Location:
Room description extended:
All the pictures that are mended of late that were extremely spoiled and peeled off from the panel and were eaten and rotten so that of some were left just the panel was most all to be taken away as your majesty knows
Original Manuscript page number:
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 193
Identification certainty:
Possible
Sale Inventory c.1649-51