Art, literature & history
The Magdalene Reading
about 1435
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery
- Medium
- oil, originally on wood, transferred to wood
- Dimensions
- 62.2 × 54.4 cm
- Collection no.
- NG654
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- Public domainLicense details
Rogier van der Weyden. The Magdalene Reading. Image credit: Rogier van der Weyden; Source credit: luxfon.com/painting. Public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery
About this artwork
The Magdalene Reading — Rogier van der Weyden. about 1435.
Medium: oil, originally on wood, transferred to wood. Dimensions: 62.2 × 54.4 cm.
Collection credit: Bought, 1860. National Gallery, London; accession NG654. Holding connection, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official structured object record, accessed 11 September 2026. Factual metadata only; image rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 11, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.