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The Repentant Magdalen
c. 1640 · oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington
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A mirror cannot refuse a face; this one does. She looks straight into the small glass, and by the Gallery's account it gives back the skull and the book beneath it.
The one candle is mostly out of sight behind that skull, so the room's only light reaches her past it. Her hand settles on the bone. The Gallery reads flame, mirror and skull as life's transience and her rejection of luxury for Christ; seventeenth-century Catholic teaching made her the sign of the Sacrament of Penance.
A woman at her mirror; the only face in it is a skull.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, object record, acc. 1974.52.1 · National Gallery of Art, "Georges de la Tour's The Repentant Magdalen" (ASL description) · National Gallery of Art collection text, Google Arts & Culture · National Gallery of Art provenance index, Monsieur André Fabius · National Gallery of Art, "Georges de La Tour's Repentant Magdalene," 25 April - 6 September 1993
And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:38 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
| Artist | Georges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652) |
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| Date | c. 1640 |
| Museum | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Accession | 1974.52.1 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | overall: 113 × 92.7 cm (44 1/2 × 36 1/2 in.) |
| Sheet sizes | 16×20 in, 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
| Held by | National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1974.52.1 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) |
| Licence | Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication |
| Master | 21,673 × 26,114 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF); held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 26,114 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.