The Penitent Magdalene

Meissen Manufactory|Christian Gottfried Jüchtzer

ca. 1783–90 · Hard-paste biscuit porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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.

Artist

Meissen Manufactory|Christian Gottfried Jüchtzer

Date

ca. 1783–90

Medium

Hard-paste biscuit porcelain

Culture

German, Meissen

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2010