Oil painting of women sitting in a room, encircling a woman and child with a dark tapestry behind them.
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Oil painting of four women encircling Saint Catherine of Alexandria who holds a baby wrapped in a white cloth. Saint Catherine wears a blue dress with gold trim and two red, jeweled clasps. Her face is turned downward towards the child in her arms. Three of the four women around Saint Catherine face her while one reads a book. The two women behind Saint Catherine wear green and gold dresses while the two women in front wear red and gold dresses. Two columns and windows are present to the right and left while a dark green and gold tapestry hangs in the background.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.197
People
Adriaen Isenbrant, Netherlandish (c.1480/90 - 1551)
Title
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with Three Female Saints: Ursula, Margaret of Antioch, and an Unidentified Martyr
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1520
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Belgium, Bruges
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231422

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on cradled panel
Dimensions
42.6 x 31.5 cm (16 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
frame: 57.3 x 44.5 x 5.3 cm (22 9/16 x 17 1/2 x 2 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on back of frame, handwritten:: R695 / A
  • label: on back of frame, printed:: EX LIBRIS / E. RODRIGUES
  • inscription: on back of frame, handwritten in white chalk:: 8
  • inscription: on back of frame, handwritten in graphite:: 219
  • inscription: on back of frame, handwritten in black pencil:: 371
  • stamp: on back of frame, circular stamp:: [ ] LUZERN GL [ ]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.197
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), no. 22, p. 29, pl. IX
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 112, 174, repr. b/w cat. no. 110
  • Amy Golahny, "Exhibition Review: Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450-1750", Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews, Historians of Netherlandish Art ([online], July 2024), https://hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/exhibition-review-imagine-me-and-you-dutch-and-flemish-encounters-with-the-islamic-world-1450-1750/, accessed July 17, 2024

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