The English Wikipedia article on Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, a painting by Georges de La Tour of which two versions exist, one at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and one at the Musee du Louvre, both oil on canvas at 128 by 94 centimetres, dated to about 1640. The article records that the Louvre version was bought in 1949 from the French Administration des Douanes, and describes Mary Magdalene, bare shouldered in a knee length skirt, with a skull resting on her lap, her hand beneath her chin as she gazes at a brightly lit candle on the desk before her, with books, a cross and a rope scourge arranged nearby as emblems of penitence.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the artist, the two-version provenance and the Louvre acquisition history, independently corroborated by a separately authored Wikimedia Commons file description that supplies the accession number the article omits. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_with_the_Smoking_Flame
Source Typeencyclopedia
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Los Angeles directly: "which two versions exist, one at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and one at the Musee du Louvre, both oil on canvas at 128 by 94 centimetres, dated to about 1640."
This source names Mary Magdalene directly: "des Douanes, and describes Mary Magdalene, bare shouldered in a knee length skirt, with a skull resting on her lap, her hand beneath her chin as she gazes at a brightly lit candle on the desk before..."
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.
View At A Past Year
The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.