Painting Detail
Christ Appearing to Mary MagdaleneArtist: Charles de La Fosse
Medium: Painting, Oil on canvas, 81x65 cm
Date: Between 1680 - 1685
Genre: Christianity, Religious
Source: Collection of Count von Bruhl, Dresden, 1769
Charles de La Fosse (or Lafosse) (June 16, 1636 - December 13, 1716), French painter, was born in Paris.
He was one of the most noted and least servile pupils of Le Brun, under whose direction he shared in the chief of the great decorative works undertaken in the reign of Louis XIV. Leaving France in 1662, he spent two years in Rome and three in Venice. The influence of his prolonged studies of Veronese is evident in his Finding of Moses (Louvre), and in his Rape of Proserpine (Louvre), which he presented to the Royal Academy as his diploma picture in 1673.