The Penitent Magdalene (1842). Jan Tysiewicz (Polish, 1815-1891). Oil on canvas.The Magdalene looks
The Penitent Magdalene (1842). Jan Tysiewicz (Polish, 1815-1891). Oil on canvas.The Magdalene looks upwards from her reading. The smooth modeling evokes the works of Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824), while the luminous glow and pronounced tenebrism harkens back to the Magdalenes of the seventeenth-century master Georges de la Tour (1593-1653). -- source link
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