Penitent Magdalen in a Landscape
by VIOLA, Giovan Battista, Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cm
This painting is a rather free rendering of Annibale Carracci’s Penitent Magdalen in a Landscape (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome). The attribution of the painting to Viola is uncertain, formerly it was variously attributed to Annibale Carracci, Francesco Albani or Domenichino and subsequently given to Viola, Giovan Francesco Grimaldi or Antonio Carracci. One possibility is that the landscape is by Viola and the skillfully executed figure by Pietro Paolo Bonzi.