Saint Catherine of Alexandria

A crowned woman with a halo stands in a flowing mantle, holding a palm frond in one hand and resting the other on a broken wheel. Her gaze turns upward beside a rayed light in the dark background. Fine engraved hatching models the drapery and the figure's face.

Look closer: The engraver's signature 'C. David fculp' sits in the lower margin beneath the Latin inscription.

Artist

Charles David

Date

ca. 1630

Medium

Engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2250 × 3093 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955