Variants and Copies of Vouet’s Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary Magdalene in Czech Collections / Varianti e copie di Marta che rimprovera sua sorella Maria Maddalena di Simone Vouet nelle collezioni della Repubblica Ceca
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https://doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/3202Abstract
The text deals with the variants and copies of the painting by the French Caravaggist Simon Vouet (1590–1649) Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary, kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and brings new information about the genesis of the individual copies. The newly discovered variant from the collection of the Sternberg family at the castle in Častolovice in the Czech Republic stands out for its high quality of artistic execution and is thus the closest to the original. Art-historical analysis and non-invasive research have yielded findings that suggest that the author of the Častolovice painting is a painter from the immediate circle of Vouet and that this painting became the model for the creation of a copy at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.
Il testo tratta delle varianti e delle copie del dipinto del caravaggista francese Simon Vouet (1590–1649) Marta che rimprovera la vana sorella Maria, conservato al Kunsthistorisches Museum di Vienna, fornendo nuove informazioni sulla genesi delle singole copie. La variante appena scoperta, proveniente dalla collezione della famiglia Sternberg nel castello di Častolovice nella Repubblica Ceca, si distingue per l’alta qualità dell’esecuzione artistica ed è quindi la più vicina all’originale. L’analisi storico-artistica e le ricerche non invasive hanno portato a risultati che suggeriscono che l’autore del dipinto di Častolovice è un pittore della cerchia immediata di Vouet e che questo quadro è diventato il modello per la creazione di una copia allo Smithsonian American Art Museum di Washington.
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