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Saint Catherine\u2014identifiable by the sword with which she was martyred and the wheel on which she was tortured\u2014wears her sleeves slit at the forearms, revealing puffs of fine white linen. Her crown, decorated with fleurs-de-lis, and red cape, lined with spotted ermine, were fashionable among the 16th-century French monarchy and highlight her status as a princess. Saint Barbara, seated in front of the tower where her father locked her away from suitors, wears the popular French hood attached to a red-velvet caul over her hair, her sleeves netted and tiered. The saints\u2019 attributes and finery made their identity and status legible to churchgoers, helping to inspire their piety.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"82.5 \u00d7 28.1 cm (32 1\/2 \u00d7 11 1\/16 in.); Framed: 110.5 \u00d7 56.6 \u00d7 7.7 cm (43 1\/2 \u00d7 22 1\/4 \u00d7 3 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":28,"height":82,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":7,"width":56,"height":110,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on panel","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"George F. Harding Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Charles Sterling and Edward S. King, \u201cA Bellegambe Triptych Reconstructed,\u201d\nJournal of the Walters Art Gallery 11 (1948), pp. 45\u201349, figs. 2, 4. \n\nSophie Speth Holterhof, \u201cIdentification de la Vierge \u00e0 l\u2019Enfant de Jean Bellegambe,\u201d unpub. typescript, Brussels, Mus\u00e9e Royal d\u2019Art Ancien, 1963. \n\nSophie Speth Holterhof, \u201cLa Vierge \u00e0 l\u2019Enfant de Jean Bellegambe,\u201d unpub. typescript, Brussels, Mus\u00e9e Royal d\u2019Art Ancien, 1964. \n\nMax J. Friedl\u00e4nder, rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, vol. 12, 1975, pp. 134\u201335,146 n. 158. \n\nRobert Genaille, \u201cL\u2019Oeuvre de Jean Bellegambe,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts,\n6th ser., 87 (1976), p. 24, no. 23, fig. 21. \n\nRobert Genaille, \u201cJean Bellegambe de Douai et la tentation du mani\u00e9risme,\u201d in \u00c0 travers l\u2019art fran\u00e7ais: Du moyen \u00e2ge au XXe si\u00e8cle, Archives de l\u2019art fran\u00e7ais 25, Paris, 1978, p. 127.\n\nSusan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 2-7, ill.","exhibition_history":"Saint Paul (Minn.) Art Center, The Age of Belief, 1966\u201367, no. 6.","provenance_text":"Achillito Chiesa, Milan, by 1925; sold, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, part I, Nov. 27, 1925, no. 42, to Harding; George F. Harding, Jr. (d. 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. 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