Penitent Magdalene (El Greco)

Penitent Magdalene
Artist El Greco
Year 1594 (1594)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 164 cm × 121 cm (65 in × 48 in)
Location National Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Penitent Magdalene is a 1576-1578 painting by El Greco, produced during his first period in Toledo and showing the major influence of Titian on him at that time[1]. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

Variants

A c. 1577 version is now in the Worcester Art Museum, whilst a a later c.1580-1585 version is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City[2]. A different composition on the subject from 1585-1590 is in the Cau Ferrat Museum.

References

  1. Scholz, pag. 26.
  2. "European Collection".

Bibliography

  • (in Spanish) ÁLVAREZ LOPERA, José, El Greco, Madrid, Arlanza, 2005, Biblioteca «Descubrir el Arte», (colección «Grandes maestros»).
  • (in Spanish) SCHOLZ-HÄNSEL, Michael, El Greco, Colonia, Taschen, 2003. ISBN 978-3-8228-3173-1
  • (in Spanish) "Santa María Magdalena" (in Spanish).
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