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Bearded man in red cloak with a spade reaches toward a kneeling woman in grey gown in a garden; a small vessel lies on the ground.

Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene as a Gardener

A bearded man in a red cloak, leaning on a spade, stands barefoot in a garden while a kneeling woman in a grey gown reaches toward him. A small vessel rests on the ground beside them, with a blue hilly landscape behind, in this Rubens workshop oil painting.

Artist
atelier van Peter Paul Rubens
Date
1615-1618
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3564 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1618.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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