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The Penitent Magdalene

Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German
Modeler Model attributed to Christian Gottfried Jüchtzer German
ca. 1783–90
Not on view
The pose of the Magdalene is derived from a painting by Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787) that entered the Royal Saxon collections in the 1750s. Christian Gottfried Jüchtzer, the modeler of the figure, has taken Batoni’s late Baroque composition and given it a distinctly neoclassical aspect, an impression reinforced by the use of biscuit porcelain which is so similar visually to marble.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Penitent Magdalene
  • Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
  • Modeler: Model attributed to Christian Gottfried Jüchtzer (German, 1752–1812)
  • Date: ca. 1783–90
  • Culture: German, Meissen
  • Medium: Hard-paste biscuit porcelain
  • Dimensions: 8 3/4 × 11 13/16 × 6 7/16 in. (22.2 × 30 × 16.4 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2010
  • Object Number: 2010.444a, b
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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