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Magdalen with the Smoking Flame
c. 1635–1637 · Oil on canvas · Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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A small flame stands in a glass, and a thread of smoke climbs from it into the dark. The Magdalen's hand rests on a skull in her lap, but her eyes are on the light. LACMA reads the skull, with the books and the scourge, as setting the mood; the true subject, it says, is the candle, what followers of Saint John of the Cross called the living flame of love. Daily Art Magazine adds the smoke as a note on how fast a life burns. La Tour's other Magdalen has a mirror the Metropolitan calls the symbol of vanity. This one has none. The flame burns down.
Sources: Candle/smoke as the work's true subject, read through St. John of the Cross's 'living flame of love' theology · Reads the rising smoke as an added vanitas note (life's fragility) atop LACMA's candle-as-subject reading; confirms the mirror belongs only to La Tour's other ('first') Magdalen painting, not this one · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Georges de La Tour, 'The Penitent Magdalen', acc. 1978.517.
And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:38 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)