Hermit Adrian Shows St. Catherine an Image of Christ

Embroidered picture: 'The Hermit Adrian Shows St. Catherine an Image of Christ and Baptizes her'. Netherlands, c. AD 1430. Embroidered picture: 'The Hermit Adrian Shows St. Catherine an Image of Christ and Baptizes her'. Netherlands, c. AD 1430. Copyright Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 47.101.61.

'The Hermit Adrian Shows St. Catherine an Image of Christ and Baptizes Her' is an embroidered picture in the shape of a roundel, which originally may have been attached to a larger textile, as for instance an altar frontal or ecclesiastical vestment. It was made in the (southern) Netherlands around AD 1430, in the or nué technique, with silk and metal thread on linen. It measures 16.8 cm in diameter.

Source: FREEMAN, Margaret B. 'The legend of Saint Catherine told in embroidery', The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 13, no. 10 (June 1955), pp. 281–93.

Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue (retrieved 9 November 2016).

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