Saint Mary Magdalen. Engraving by L.M. Halbou after Molenchon after A. van der Werff.

  • Werff, Adriaen van der, 1659-1722.
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[1805]
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6653i
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Saint Mary Magdalen. Engraving by L.M. Halbou after Molenchon after A. van der Werff. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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She sits bare-breasted on a rocky ledge in a mountainous landscape, reading a vellum-bound book. On the ledge next to her are a skull and a branch of a fruit-tree

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [chez Herhan], [1805]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching

Lettering

S.te Magdelaine dans le désert. Peint par Werff, Adrien vender. Dessiné par Molinchon. Gravé par Louis Michel Halbou.

References note

Jean Adhémar, Jacques Lethève, and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome X, Paris 1958, p. 101, no. 10 ("10. Ste Madeleine, 1805, d'apr. Vanderwerff, dans le Musée français de Landon, chez Herhan, 1803-1809. Plusieurs épr.")

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Wellcome Collection 6653i

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