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Great oil on canvas depicting Mary Magdalene penitents her hair detached and her eyes turned to Heaven, her hand resting on the pot of ointment with which she has washed and perfumed the feet of Christ, beside her a skull, in a frame In gilt carved wood decorated with flowers, of late 17th century.
This picture is in good condition as well as its frame. He was re-ennobled. Etiquette on the back indicating its provenance: Castle of Trégantreur in Guégon (in the Morbihan in Brittany).
To note: a few tiny accidents and lack on the frame, traces of restorations on the canvas, tiny little lack of painting (skull level), wear and tear, see photos.
Mary Magdalene, Mary Magdalene or Magdalene, called Mary Magdalene in the Gospels is a disciple of Jesus who follows him until his last days. The four Gospels call it the first witness of the Resurrection, which is charged with warning the apostles. Tradition and Christian iconography are based on these canonical and apocryphal texts to give many faces to Mary Magdalene, first the spiritual spouse of Christ and the apostle of Revelation, and then from the fourth century the sinner denied And flouted but repented, the Middle Ages seizing many legends to make a saint. In sacred art, Mary Magdalene is often depicted naked, with long, loose hair, to signify her repentance and penance. One of the iconography of Mary Magdalene represents her as a hermit in the desert, after the death of Christ; Seductive woman, not devoid of sensuality, a long undulating hair covering her nakedness, she prays or meditates, with her usual attributes of repentance, skull, cross, biblical book ...
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