Home > Auction >  paintings, furniture and works of art, jewellery, sculptures, bronzes >  Lot.526 Chasse, Barthélémy. Naples about 1660 - Marseille 1720. 86 x 112 cm. The penitent Mary Magdalene. Oil/liquid, signed lower left. Barthélémy Chasse (probably a Frenchized form of Sciascia), who was active in Marseilles from 1689/1690 and who came from Naples, is influenced by the work of Juseppe de Ribera and the Neapolitan works of Caravaggio. A representation of the Wonderful Fish Train (with fish still lifes) also reveals an influence of Giuseppe Recco. Chasse worked mainly for the local convents, brotherhoods and also for the Archbishop Henri Francois de Belsunce, whose court painter he was from 1711 and for whom he executed monumental paintings for his episcopal palace and his castle in Aubagne. In addition to the large formats, which he sometimes created together with the Spanish painter Michel Serre, he also created smaller, signed paintings for private clients, to which the present work can also be counted. With an expert opinion by Dr. Mina Gregori, Florence (photocopied).