“Triptych of the Family of Marriage” was written after the travel of the artist to Italy. The essence of the picture is the mental stress of the saints immersed in the prayer silence.
The right wing of the triptych, depicting Mary Magdalene, is treated as a portrait of a young woman in a fashionable dress, but her self-absorbed, prayerful detachment speaks of the master’s loyalty to the religious idea. A beautiful landscape, serving as a backdrop for the portrait, is designed in great detail. At the horizon, the forested mountains rise, the soft outlines of nearby hills gently flow.
Unhurried travelers walk and ride in the fields and forests under the blue sky. The landscape fascinates with its fairy-tale beauty. As early as the end of the 16th century, the triptych was located among the descendants of the Marriage family, later it changes owners several times. For the Louvre, the painting was acquired in 1913.
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