Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Jean Honoré Fragonard|Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
ca. 1764 · Etching, first state of two · Drawings and Prints
This etching is from a group of sixteen made by Fragonard in Paris around 1763-64, based on black chalk drawings he had made in Italy a few years earlier for his friend and patron, the abbé de Saint-Non. This composition is based on a painting of Saint Catherine touched by divine love by Mattia Preti (Italian, 1613-1699). It was one of five paintings by Preti Fragonard copied in the church of San Pietro a Maiella in Naples in March, 1761.
- Artist
- Jean Honoré Fragonard|Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
- Date
- ca. 1764
- Medium
- Etching, first state of two
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
