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 xix GODFRIED SCHALCKEN 3 2 3 46. THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. Sm. Suppl. 12. Half- length. She is in a cave. Her head and her eyes are upturned to the right ; her body is turned slightly to the left. She wears a blue gown over a chemise which leaves her bosom and her left shoulder exposed. To the left are a skull and an open book, on which she folds her hands in prayer. On the right a lighted candle is placed at an angle in the rock, lighting the penitent. In the left background, through an arched opening, is a view of a landscape at night. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, i6| inches by 13 inches. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. I2 ^ In the Palace, Kassel ; 1783 inventory, No. 71. In the Louvre, Paris, 1806-1815. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 305 (old No. 278). 47. THE PENITENT MAGDALEN, Half-length, turned to the left ; by candlelight. She sits at a table, looking up at a crucifix. She holds a skull in her left hand. The candle stands on the table, opposite to her. 21 inches by 17^ inches. In the Hampton Court Gallery, 1898 catalogue, No. 659. 48. THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. Half-length. A lighted lamp illumines the cave in which she sits weeping. Her right hand is on a skull ; her left hand supports her head. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 40 inches by 28^ inches. In the collection of the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm (who died 1716), Diisseldorf ; see Van Gool, ii. 533. In the Mannheim Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 371 ; in the store- room since 1910. 49. THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. Sm. 75. She sits, half nude, in a grotto. With her right hand she holds a lighted lamp standing on a book. At her feet are rich trappings and jewels. A ray of light falls on her forehead from a group of angels hovering above. One angel brings her a palm-branch and a laurel wreath. Signed in full, and dated 1700 according to Pigage, Die Galerie in Diisseldorf^ 1778 ; canvas, 37^ inches by 27^ inches. In the collection of the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm (who died 1716), Diisseldorf; see Van Gool, ii. 533. In the Germanic Museum, Niirnberg, 1893 catalogue, No. 342. 50. THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. Sm. Suppl. 17. A small half-length. She sits, turned slightly to the left, in a rocky grotto, lighted by a lamp standing near a tree-stump. She reads an open book leaning against a skull. Through the entrance of a grotto, to the right, is seen the full moon, partly obscured by a cloud. The Magdalen wears a dark blue cloak, falling down frorn the back of her head, and a light red dress cut out to a point on the bosom. Signed in full on the left at foot j panel, 8 inches by 8| inches.