Through the program “Guest Work of Art”, the Museo del Prado inaugurates a new exhibition model that pretends to allow visitors to get closer to great Works of art from other museums with the double objective of enriching the visitor´s experience and to estbalish a comparative term that allows reflection on the museum´s own works of art.

The work of art selected to open the program, The Penitent Magdalene by Georges de la Tour, presents Magdalene, symbol of redemption through repentance, in a night scene, illuminated by a candle that creates violent contrasts in her meditation instruments, the sacred books, the cross and the Skull, symbol of death, objects that conform one of the most beautiful still lifes made by the author. La Tour shows the saint with a delicate aspect, far away from her common laborers, soldiers or street musicians.