Mary Magdalene Comforted by an Angel
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The Golden Legend puts her somewhere with no running water, no trees and no herbs, alone for thirty years. At every canonical hour angels lifted her into the air to hear the songs of heaven, and fed her, so she needed no bodily food.
Vignon keeps one angel and gives back the landscape. She leans on a rock with a tall cross in her arm, and the angel in red and gold bends toward her across the stone; a small chalice and a closed book lie between them. Behind them are trees, green hills and cloud. Nobody is being lifted.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Mary Magdalene Comforted by an Angel', Claude Vignon, 1626, 2017.159.2; read 2026-09-01. · Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, vol. 4, 'Life of S. Mary Magdalene', trans. William Caxton (Temple Classics ed.), Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 23,757 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.