Creative Commons License
St. Catherine of Alexandria
(Renaissance Europe )
The half-length figure of the saint, her head, with coronet and veil, surrounded by a nimbus. A tiny cross hangs on her forehead. She carries the palm of a martyr and the sword of her execution, and she wears on her left hand the ring of her mystical marriage with Christ. She is dressed in a mantle trimmed with fur and a belted gown, with a purse hanging at her right, and is adorned with a necklace and earrings of pearls. Before her is the broken rim of the toothed wheel of her torture. The black background is powdered with stars. At the base is a tablet inscribed in gilding S. CATHARINA, and the monogram IL, with a fleur-de-lys between the two letters.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Montagu Edmond Parker [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Albert Edward Parker, third Earl of Morley, [date of acquisition unknown] by inheritance; Sale, London, July 13, 1897, lot 47; George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Limoges (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 4 3/16 x W: 2 15/16 in. (10.6 x 7.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
44.276