Boetvaardige Maria Magdalena in landschap, Jacob Matham, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1600 - 1604

Title(s)

Boetvaardige Maria Magdalena in landschap

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-27.112

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 114-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Jacob Matham (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• Simon Sovius (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Jacob Matham (mentioned on object)
• Rudolf II van Habsburg (Duits keizer) (mentioned on object)

Place

Haarlem

Dating

1600 - 1604

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 280 mm × width 192 mm

What

• the penitent St. Mary Magdalene (often before a cave, possibly at La Sainte-Baume hill): her long hair covers her (naked) body, she reads, meditates or raises her tear-filled eyes towards heaven

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Jacob Matham, dl. I, p. 234, cat.nr. 114