H. Maria Magdalena gelegen in een grot, Claude Mellan, 1629 - 1630

Identification

Title(s)

H. Maria Magdalena gelegen in een grot

Object type

print

Object number

RP-P-OB-69.901

Catalogue reference

IFF 17e siècle 113-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

collector's mark: Lugt 240

Creation

Artist

print maker: Claude Mellan (mentioned on object)
after painting by: Claude Mellan (mentioned on object)
Claude Mellan (mentioned on object)
William Barclay (mentioned on object)

Place

Rome

Dating

1624 - 1636 and/or 1629 - 1630

Material and Technique

Material

paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 183 mm × width 224 mm

Explanatory note

De voorbereidende tekening bevindt zich in Abbeville, Musée Boucher de Perthe. Voor meer informatie over deze tekening zie: Brejon, Barbara. La Sainte Madeleine pénitente de Claude Mellan, in: 'Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France', 1979, nr. 5/6, p. 407-410. Zij dateert de tekening en de prent 1629-1630 en herkent de invloed van Orazio Gentileschi.

Subject

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 and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Documentation

Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 17, p. 85, cat.nr. 113
Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville, Anatole de Montaiglon, Mariette, p. 406, cat.nr. 98

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.152749

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