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Female Saint
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Female Saint

Master of Koudewater · c. 1460 · walnut (hardwood)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

She stands on a low plinth with the right knee slightly forward and with the arms beside the body. The garment with V-shaped neck opening and long sleeves is held up under the left arm, whereby two skirts are still visible at the left shoe point, one of which is trimmed with a bonnet edge. With the same arm she also holds up the mantle, which falls from the shoulders and over the arms. On the garment, which shows three slit pleats at the neck, lies a three-part pearl necklace with toothed edge, to which a rhombus-shaped pendant; above the V-shaped neck opening a waffled frontlet, bounded by a pearl edge. The groove around the skull indicates a now missing crown.

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Credit lineFemale Saint. c. 1460. Master of Koudewater. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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