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Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene as a Gardener (Noli me tangere)
Also titled Christus verschijnt aan Maria Magdalena (Noli me tangere)
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1645
- Medium
- paper, deck paint, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 154 mm x width 146 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Rembrandt depicts the dramatic moment when Mary Magdalene recognizes the man who addressed her at the empty grave: it is not the gardener, as she first thought, but her Master who stands before her. She almost collapses when she realizes that he has risen from the dead. Christ implores her not to touch him (‘Noli me tangere’); he no longer belongs to the mortal world.
