The Repentant Magdalene, ca. 1625

  • Nicolas Régnier, Flemish, active Italy, 1591-1667

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 48 1/16 × 37 13/16 inches (122 × 96 cm)
  • 59 1/16 × 48 7/8 × 3 3/4 inches (150 × 124.1 × 9.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Trent McMath

38.67

On View

  • European: 17th Century French, Level 2, South

Department

European Painting

1922, (Julius Böhler, Munich, Germany)

by 1924-25, collection of Julius H. Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

by inheritance to Mrs. Trent McMath [née Constance Haass]

1938-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Nicolas Régnier, The Repentant Magdalene, ca. 1625, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Trent McMath, 38.67.