The Penitent Magdalene
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 4 1/2 x 6 5/16 in. (11.5 x 16 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Van Day Truex Fund, 2006
Accession Number
2006.490
Tags
Mary Magdalene
About the Artist
Adriaen van der Werff · 1659–1722
Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was apprenticed to the portrait painter Cornelis Picolet (1626–79) from 1668 to 1670 and then from ca.1671 to 1676 to Eglon van der Neer in Rotterdam. From 1676 van der Werff produced small portraits and genre paintings as an independent master. In 1687 van der Werff, by then a successful artist, married the wealthy Margaretha Rees (1669–1731), whose guardian, Nic...