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The Penitent magdalen
(Bartolome Esteban Murillo)

Description

Mary Magdalene

Oil on canvas
122.5 x 107 cm.

PROVENANCE: Isabella Farnese, Inventory No. 629.
In the Bourdet Collection in Le Havre.

LITERATURE: L. Mayer. 1923 in Klassiker der Kunst.

Professor Angulo Iniguez has confirmed that the painting will be included in his forthcoming Catalogue Raisonne on Murillo. A copy of the picture exists in Madrid and the Pendant of St. Jerome (Isabella Farnese Inventory No. 630) is now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Measurements
122.5 x 107 cm
Type
Oil on canvas
Exhibited

“Amanti. Storie di Passioni Divine e Umane” at Casa delle Esposizioni di Illegio (Tolmezzo, UD) from 21.05. to 08.10.2017

Where is It?
Acquired through The Matthiesen Gakkery by a Spanish Collector
Historical Period
Baroque - 1600-1720
Subject
Religious: New Testament
School
Spanish
Price band
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