Painting and Sculpture

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame (also titled in French La Madeleine à la veilleuse, and La Madeleine à la flamme filante) is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary Magdalene by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour. Two versions of this painting exist, one in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the other in the Louvre Museum in Paris (La Madeleine a la veilleuse). There are differences between these two, but they are very minor, for example the books on the table, and the shape of the flame. There are at least two other paintings by de La Tour with variant compositions of the Penitent Magdalene seen by candlelight, the Magdalene at the Mirror now in New York City and the Magdalene with Two Flames now in Washington DC.

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• ▸Alfred Hitchens
• ▸Cape Spear
• ▸La Nymphe surprise

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