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Mary Magdalene Comforted by an Angel
1626 · oil on panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Mary Magdalene sits barefoot under dark trees, her hair loose, a slender cross against her shoulder, and an angel in red and gold kneels to her across a grey rock. On the ground between them a small gold chalice stands on a closed book. The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine sends her into a place with no running water, no trees and no herbs, alone for thirty years; at every canonical hour, it says, angels lifted her into the air to hear the songs of heaven, and fed her, so that she needed no bodily food. Claude Vignon keeps one angel and gives her back the land: trees, green hills, a sky of moving cloud. The National Gallery of Art reads the inscription at lower right, signed and dated 1626. Nobody is lifted. The angel leans close, and her lips part.
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
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
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The file this print is made from
| Artist | Claude Vignon (French, 1593–1670) |
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| Date | 1626 |
| Museum | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Accession | 2017.159.2 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | overall: 77 × 99 cm (30 5/16 × 39 in.) |
| Sheet sizes | 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
| Held by | National Gallery of Art, Washington · 2017.159.2 the museum’s record |
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| Source file | the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) |
| Licence | public domain; the file released under CC0 |
| Master | 23,757 × 18,519 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) on 1 September 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
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.