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Portrait of a Woman as Saint Catherine
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Holden Collection
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Portrait of a Woman as Saint Catherine

c. 1560
Pier Francesco Foschi (Italian, 1502–1567) visual detail
ArtistPier Francesco Foschi (Italian, 1502–1567)
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Provenance

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Provenance event

Riccardi Gallery, Florence, Italy, sold to James Jackson Jarves

? - 1884

James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), sold to Liberty Emery Holden

1884-1913

Liberty Emery Holden, Cleveland, OH (1833-1913), by descent to his wife

1913-1916

Mrs. Liberty Emery Holden (Delia Elizabeth Bulkley, 1838-1932), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Clevela...

1916-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

Riccardi Gallery, Florence, Italy, sold to James Jackson Jarves James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888), sold to Liberty Emery Holden Liberty Emery Holden, Cleveland, OH (1833-1913), by descent to his wife Mrs. Liberty Emery Holden (Delia Elizabeth Bulkley, 1838-1932), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts, and Manufactures: Art Department, Jarves Collection. Boston, MA (1883). Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1912).

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a Christian, was martyred for refusing to make sacrifices to idols as decreed by the pagan Roman emperor Maxentius. While Maxentius first attempted to slay Catherine with spiked wheels, the machine broke when she prayed for salvation, and the emperor subsequently beheaded her. Catherine is identified in portraits through objects related to her martyrdom, such as a broken wheel, or a palm branch symbolizing the victory of the eternal spirit over mortal flesh. In sixteenth-century Florence, patrician women were often portrayed as such exemplary figures, indicating the virtues of the sitter.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.

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