Current knowledge

Probably by Antonio da Correggio

The Magdalen

© The National Gallery, London NG 2812
Current measurements: 
38cm x 30.5cm
Date: 
1518-19

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.

Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):