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Penitient Magdalen and an Angel

Drawing
1649 (made)
Artist/Maker
Bloemaert, Abraham (artist)
Place of origin
Netherlands (drawn)

Mary Magdalen kneeling in prayer, her vase and book on a rock by her side; a cherub descending; Drawn with a pen, on prepared paper, washed with sepia, and heightened; Dated 1649.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitlePenitient Magdalen and an Angel (published title)
Materials and techniques
Drawn with a pen, on prepared paper, washed with sepia, and heightened
Pen
Prepared Paper
Sepia
Drawing
Wash Technique
Heightening
Brief description
Drawing, 'Penitient Magdalen and an Angel'; by Abraham Bloemaert, drawn with a pen, on prepared paper, washed with sepia; Dutch school; 1649.
Physical description
Mary Magdalen kneeling in prayer, her vase and book on a rock by her side; a cherub descending; Drawn with a pen, on prepared paper, washed with sepia, and heightened; Dated 1649.
Dimensions
  • Height: 262 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
Dated by the artist, at lower right, in dark brown ink 1649; and inscribed above this, also in brown ink (with museum's Dyce inv. no.), 395. Inscribed on mount at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand, in pencil (with Dyce's original inv. no.), 217.
Gallery label
Abraham Bloemaert made this drawing during the last years of his long life. A devout Catholic, he spent most of his career in Utrecht, a Catholic stronghold in the predominately Protestant Dutch Republic. Scenes of the penitent Mary Magdalen atoning for her sins were especially popular during the Catholic Counter- Reformation. Bloemaert depicted the subject several times.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Cherub
Book
Vase
Mary Magdalen
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. I, Cat. 33, illus. p.76.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.395

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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