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The Repentant Magdalen
c. 1640 · oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington
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A mirror cannot refuse a face; this one does. She looks straight into the small glass, and by the Gallery's account it gives back the skull and the book beneath it.
The one candle is mostly out of sight behind that skull, so the room's only light reaches her past it. Her hand settles on the bone. The Gallery reads flame, mirror and skull as life's transience and her rejection of luxury for Christ; seventeenth-century Catholic teaching made her the sign of the Sacrament of Penance.
A woman at her mirror; the only face in it is a skull.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, object record, acc. 1974.52.1 · National Gallery of Art, "Georges de la Tour's The Repentant Magdalen" (ASL description) · National Gallery of Art collection text, Google Arts & Culture · National Gallery of Art provenance index, Monsieur André Fabius · National Gallery of Art, "Georges de La Tour's Repentant Magdalene," 25 April - 6 September 1993
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)