Unidentified

The current whereabouts of this work is unknown.

Van der Doort’s record of the composition describes a different work to Titian’s famous depictions of the same subject in Florence’s Palazzo Pitti, the State Hermitage in Russia and the Getty in Los Angeles.

Van der Doort c.1639

Titian

Magdalene, with folding hands turning her head towards her right shoulder, life-size, half-length

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 19, № 14
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
2ft 9in x 3ft 3in (83.8 x 99.1cm)
Frame: 
all-over gilded frame
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 24
Identification certainty: 
Unknown