Loading
The Magdalen in a Landscape
Adriaen Isenbrandtabout 1520
The National Gallery, London
London, United Kingdom
Mary Magdalene is at prayer before a book and a crucifix which is held by an angel; the jar containing the ointment with which she anointed Christ is in the foreground. She appears again in the right background reading in a cave in which, according to her legend, she lived for 30 years. The picture was probably painted in about 1520.
Show lessRead more
Details
- Title: The Magdalen in a Landscape
- Creator: Albert Cornelis
- Date Created: about 1520
- Physical Dimensions: 41.4 × 32.2 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak
- School: Netherlandish
- More Info: Explore the National Gallery’s paintings online
- Inventory number: NG2585
- Artist Dates: active 1512; died 1531
- Artist Biography: Cornelis was active in Bruges from 1512 and died in 1531. There are many indications that he ran a large business as a painter and was probably also a dealer in pcitures. He was responsible for a triptych of the Coronation of the Virgin commissioned by a Bruges Guild in 1517 and delivered in 1517. The central panel survives in Bruges (Church of St James) and the faces, documented as his work as a result of a lawsuit, provide evidence of his style as a painter.
- Acquisition Credit: Salting Bequest, 1910
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.