Mary Magdalene in the Desert (French: Marie-Madeleine au désert) is a 1886 painting by Emmanuel Benner (1836-1896).

It is now in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

[1] The painting is a depiction of Mary Magdalene as a voluptuous nude woman, who appears reclined while reading a folio in what is purportedly a cave in a desert.

The painting was exhibited at the Salon de 1886 in Paris.

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