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Penitent Magdalen kneeling on a rocky ground before a skull and bones, an ointment jar lies in the left foreground, rays of light and winged putti descend from above
ca. 1640–55
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in. (21.8 x 14.4 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.333
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giulio Carpioni. Penitent Magdalen kneeling on a rocky ground before a skull and bones, an ointment jar lies in the left foreground, rays of light and winged putti descend from above. Giulio Carpioni; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Penitent Magdalen kneeling on a rocky ground before a skull and bones, an ointment jar lies in the left foreground, rays of light and winged putti descend from above — Giulio Carpioni. ca. 1640–55.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in. (21.8 x 14.4 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.