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Attributed to Jacques BLANCHARD (1600 - 1638) Mary...

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Attributed to Jacques BLANCHARD (1600 - 1638) Mary Magdalene Original canvas 73 x 60 cm Bears a label lower right "225" Unframed The figure of Mary Magdalene occupies an important place in Blanchard's production. Our composition is to be compared with two other compositions after a lost original by Blanchard: one is present on the art market (Canvas, 81 x 65 cm) and the other (Canvas, 73 x 60 x cm) was in the church of Saint-Germain-de-Sivry in Sivry-Courty (Seine-et-Marne) and was stolen in December 1996 (see the catalogue of the exhibition From Vouet to Boucher. Au coeur de la collection Motais de Narbonne. Peintures françaises et italiennes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, 15 September 2018 - 13 January 2019).