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The Magdalen Reading
is one of three surviving fragments of a large mid-15th-century
oil on panel
altarpiece
by the
Early Netherlandish
painter
Rogier van der Weyden
. The panel, originally
oak
, was completed some time between 1435 and 1438 and has been in the
National Gallery
, London since 1860. It shows a woman with pale skin, high cheek bones, and oval eyelids who is identifiable as
Mary Magdalene
from the jar of ointment placed in the foreground, which is her traditional attribute in Christian art.
Painting:
Rogier van der Weyden
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