Mary Magdalene, penitent in the desert
Medium
Engraving; first state of six
Dimensions
Plate: 17 13/16 × 12 5/8 in. (45.3 × 32 cm) Sheet: 21 9/16 × 15 1/16 in. (54.7 × 38.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.22.37
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo|Raphael Morghen|Stephano Tofanelli · 1617–1682
Son of Gaspar Esteban, a barber-surgeon, and María Pérez. He was orphaned at the age of ten and brought up by his maternal uncle, who placed him as an apprentice with his relative Juan del Castillo, a painter in the Italian manner. He adopted the surname of his maternal grandmother, Elvira Murillo, and rarely signed or used that of his father. Comment on works: History; Portraits; Religious