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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a sketch by Sir Anthony van Dyck. It it a portrait of a woman from the head to the upper legs. Her face is pointing down and to the side, and her long hair falls over her shoulder. The woman's left arm is bare, while the rest of her body is covered by a robe.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 13
SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK
(b. 1599; d. 1641)
STUDY FOR ST. MARY MAGDALENE
British Museum, 1910-2-12-208. From the Salting Bequest. Drawn with the brush in sepia, over black chalk. 26.2 x 15.7 cm. (10 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.).
A powerful example of Van Dyck's earlier period, thoroughly individual in its handling, but inspired by Rubens in style. The study is most probably that of a repentant Magdalene, but Van Dyck is not known to have used it in any picture. It is not impossible (though less likely) that it was a sketch for part of a large composition, for the figure of Magdalene, or even the Virgin, in a Crucifixion, or Pietà.
A. M. H."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Anthony van Dyck, Study for Saint Mary Magdelene (1933.436). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105307 | Go to resource |
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