# Penitent Mary Magdalene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MIERIS, Willem van]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on panel, 20 x 16 cm ## Commentary Van Mieris depicts Mary Magdalene with her hair worn down, her soft locks flowing over her bare shoulder and her right breast tantalisingly revealed. This revealing state of undress was a particular iconography associated with Mary Magdalene. The motif of one bare breast was particularly popular in art of the seventeenth-century. ## Related artworks - [A Seated Man]() - [An Old Man Reading]() - [Diana Resting in a Landscape]() - [Expulsion of Hagar]() - [Interior with a Mother Attending her Children]() - [Man with Pipe]() - [Militiaman with Empty Glass]() - [The Escaped Bird]() - [The Greengrocer]() - [The Lute Player]() - [The Poulterer's Shop \(detail\)]() - [The Poulterer's Shop]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()