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Magdalene at a Mirror

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Magdalene at a Mirror or Penitent Magdalene is a c.1635-1640 oil on canvas painting by Georges de la Tour. It passed from the Marquise de Caulaincourt to the Comtesse d'Andigné in 1911, before being bought in 1936 by André Fabius - it is sometimes known as The Fabius Magdalene as a result[1]. It was then unattributed but Louvre experts attributed it to de la Tour in 1937. Fabius could not find a buyer in France and so in 1964 sold it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where it still hangs, though this caused a legal case since Fabius had not sought an export licence to remove the work from France[2].

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References

  1. ^ "Catalogue entry".
  2. ^ Fabius, Wunderkind, p. 36-37
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