Northern Paintings for Sale
Pieter de Grebber
(Haarlem 1600 - 1652)
Mary Magdalene
Oil on canvas
38 3/4 x 31 1/4 in. (98.42 x 79.38 cm.)
17th century
Dutch
Signed in monogram lower center: P DG(joined)
Pieter de Grebber depicts the repentant sinner as a near life-sized half-length figure. She kneels with her hands folded in her lap, gazing at a crucifix leant against a rock. She is depicted before a neutral background, and only the rock - which partially obscures the figure - defines the pictorial space. The grey-green tone provides a backdrop before which the female figure with her fluidly ...