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This composition of the Holy Family with St Mary Magdalen was repeated many times by El Greco's workshop and imitators. In the painting, pervaded by a warm domesticity, we can find an anecdotal approach to a religious theme: St Joseph offers the Virgin a bowl of fruit from which she has selected two pieces to give to the Christ Child. This still-life detail of the clear glass bowl with fruit is the most striking feature of the picture.
It is supposed that the head of Mary is a portrait of Doña Jerónima de las Cuevas while that of St Joseph is a self-portrait of the artist.
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