Saint Catherine

Jacopo de' Barbari

ca. 1501–3 · Engraving, silhouetted with background from additional piece of paper later added · Drawings and Prints

This is a rich early impression of which nothing remains but the figure and most of the ground below. Practically all of the blank background was skillfully added in the nineteenth century.

Artist

Jacopo de' Barbari

Date

ca. 1501–3

Medium

Engraving, silhouetted with background from additional piece of paper later added

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960