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Studies of the Mourning Magdalen and the Virgin
Also titled Studies van de treurende Maria Magdalena en de Maagd Maria
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1635 - c. 1636
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 201 mm x width 143 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In the 1630s Rembrandt painted a series on the suffering of Christ, the Passion. Commissioned by Prince Frederick Henry, the project was discussed via the Prince’s secretary, Constantijn Huygens. Here Rembrandt tried out various poses for the figures of Mary Magdalene (in pen) and the Virgin (in red chalk) in The Entombment. As he later wrote to Huygens, he was seeking the ‘most natural emotions’ of the figures.
