Unknown artist, depiction of a saint (Magdalene?). 17th or early 18th c. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Framed in a profiled gilded wooden moulding. Backing paper. In the marginal areas partly with small nail holes as well as small missing parts. Pronounced age craquelure and climatic edge. Painterly reworkings and more recent small-scale retouchings. Large-scale overpaintings in the background, the nimbus and glazing in the blue cape. The canvas with glue stain on verso. The stretcher frame with inactive anobia infestation. Dimensions: 72 x 53,5 cm, ra. 85 x 66,8 cm.

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