Magdalena Poenitens (The Penitent Magdalene)
c. 1555/1557
Artist, Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589
Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570
Artist, Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605
Johannes and Lucas van Doetechum after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate): 32.3 × 42.4 cm (12 11/16 × 16 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.2121
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 12, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1949
Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.
1959
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.
1960
Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 13.
1962
The Saints in Prints & Illuminations from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, The Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1962-1963, no. 32.
1965
Master Prints, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1965-1966.
1966
Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 91.
Bibliography
1908
Bastelaer, Rene van. Les estampes de Peter Bruegel l'ancien. Brussels: G. van Oest et Cie, 1908.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (van Doetecum family, Henk Nalis author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 12, state i/ii.
Inscriptions
lower left, in plate, in image: brueghel Inven. / .h. cock excud; lower margin, in plate: MAGDALENA POENITENS
Wikidata ID
Q64959642