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Mary Magdalene
The woman is Mary Magdalene. She can be identified by her jar of ointment, which she used to anoint Jesus’s feet. Van Scorel painted her as a seductive, luxuriously dressed courtesan, a reference to her reputed past as a prostitute. Her clothing shows the influence of Italian painting, to which Van Scorel was introduced during his trip to Rome.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(MARY MAGDALENE)9
- http://iconclass.org/25H11
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(MARY MAGDALENE)9
- http://iconclass.org/25H11
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1530
- 1530
Place-Time
- second quarter 16th century
Places
- Haarlem
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.3566
- Haarlem
Provenance
- …; estate inventory, Commandery of St John, Haarlem, 1572, in the great hall (‘1 Tauoreel van Maria magdalena gemaect by meijster ian scorel’);{Van Bueren 1993, pp. 351, 496, 597.} stored at an unknown location, 1572-1606;{Van Bueren 1993, p. 351, 597.} estate inventory, Commandery of St John, Haarlem, 1606, in the commander’s chamber (‘Noch een Magdalena van Schoorl’);{Van Bueren 1993, pp. 351, 523, 597.} estate inventory, Commandery of St John, Haarlem, 1625, in the commander’s bedchamber (‘Een Taeffereeltgen van Maria magdalena’);{Van Bueren 1993, pp. 351, 537, 597.} transferred to the Prinsenhof, Haarlem, 1628;{Van Bueren 1993, p. 155.} estate inventory, Prinsenhof, Haarlem, 28 April 1667, in the reception room (‘van maria magdalena’);{Van Bueren, 1993, pp. 351, 597, 618.} Prince’s room, at the Prinsenhof, Haarlem, c. 1750;{Pieter Langendijk, Beschrijving van kerken, kloosters, het Begijnhof, het stadhuis en het Prinsenhof te Haarlem, c. 1750, fol. 58; see coll. cat. Haarlem 2006, pp. 56-57.} acquired by the Dutch state and transferred to the museum, as Anonymous, 1804;{Moes/Van Biema 1909, pp. 77-78.} on loan to the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2004-10
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5444
- SK-A-372
Extent
- height 66.3 cm
- width 76 cm
- height 86.5 cm
- width 96 cm
- thickness 5.5 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1530
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:48.056Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:55.950Z