Georges de La Tour

La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de
La Tour, Claude du Menil de
Latour, Georges de

French, 1593 - 1652

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Lorrain painter (1593–1652)

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A young woman with pale skin sits at a table in a darkened room in this vertical painting. Long chestnut-brown hair drapes over her shoulder and her deep, cream-colored, long-sleeved garment is open at her neck. She rests her chin in her right hand, farther from us, as her left reaches for a skull placed on a thick book on the table in front of her. The scene is lit by a single candle mostly out of sight behind the skull. Shown in profile, she looks into a small mirror next to the skull, which reflects that object and the book.
Georges de La Tour, The Repentant Magdalen, c. 1635/1640, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1974.52.1

The Repentant Magdalen

Georges de La Tour · c. 1635/1640 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1974.52.1

Bibliography

1907

  • Ref Number: XXII.422 (Georges
    T.-B.XXII.422 (Georges Du Mesnil (Dumesnil) de La Tour)

1948

  • Pariset, François-Georges. Georges de La Tour. Paris, 1948.

1993

  • Thuillier, Jacques. Georges de La Tour. Translated by Fabia Claris. Paris, 1993 (French ed. 1992).

1996

  • Conisbee, Philip, et al. Georges de La Tour and His World. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1996-1997. Washington, 1996.

1997

  • Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, and Pierre Rosenberg. Georges de La Tour, Les expositions de l'oeil. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1997.

2009

  • Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: 271.