Magdalena Poenitens (The Penitent Magdalene)

c. 1555/1557

Lucas van Doetechum

Artist, Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589

Hieronymus Cock

Publisher, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder

Artist, Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 32.3 × 42.4 cm (12 11/16 × 16 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.2121

  • 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


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