Shop art print and framed art Saint Thomas by Georges de La Tour

La Madeleine à la veilleuse is a painting by Georges de La Tour circa 1640-1645. This oil on canvas depicts Saint Magdalene, as do several other paintings by the artist. Two versions of this painting exist, one in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and the other in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ("Magdalene with the Smoking Flame"). La Madeleine à la veilleuse is a painting by the French painter Georges de La Tour dating from 1640-1645, and measuring, with its frame, 156 centimetres high and 122 centimetres wide, 128 centimetres by 94 centimetres without the frame. The painting was bought by the Musée du Louvre in 1949 and bears the inventory number RF 1949-11. It spent part of the Second World War hidden in a German salt mine, sheltered from the bombardments. La Madeleine à la veilleuse was previously exhibited at the Louvre-Lens in La Galerie du temps. It is now back at the Louvre-Paris in the Sully wing, room 912. In the Disney film The Little Mermaid, the heroine has this painting in her lair. Madeleine à la veilleuse", in the "La fontaine narrative" section of René Char's collection Fureur et [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the baroque style.

 

« Saint Thomas » is kept at Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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