Mary Magdalene in the Desert
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French: Marie-Madeleine au désert | |
File:Emmanuel Benner, Marie-Madeleine au désert ( Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg ).JPG | |
Artist | Emmanuel Benner |
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Year | 1886 |
Subject | Mary Magdalene reading a book in the desert |
Dimensions | 131 cm × 175 cm (52 in × 69 in)[1] |
Location | Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg |
Accession | 1895 |
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Mary Magdalene in the Desert (French: Marie-Madeleine au désert) is a 1886 painting by Emmanuel Benner (1836–1896). It is now in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Its inventory number is 55.974.0.163.[1]
The painting depicts Mary Magdalene as a voluptuous nude, reading a folio in what is purportedly a cave in a desert. The painting was exhibited at the Salon de 1886 in Paris.[2]
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