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Saint Catherine with a Kneeling Male Donor
The collection record classifies this work as glass. It is dated 1400s. Recorded culture or place: France, Poitou, Melle, 15th century.
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- Museum title
- Saint Catherine with a Kneeling Male Donor
- Date
- 1400s
- Culture / origin
- France, Poitou, Melle, 15th century
- Materials and technique
- pot metal, white glass with silver stain
- Dimensions
- Overall: 158.7 x 49.2 cm (62 1/2 x 19 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1921.106
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This panel was originally part of a much larger composition. Saint Catherine stands behind a donor, a cleric, who faces a missing scene representing either the Crucifixion or the standing Virgin, which would have formed the object of the donor’s devotion. In the lower right corner an inscription identifies the donor as rector de Melle, a clergyman in charge of the parish of the town of Melle in western France. The panel must have been commissioned for a church in this town with which the donor was affiliated. A scroll near the donor reads Miserere mei deus (God have mercy on me).
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Dudley P. Allen Fund · CC0
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