Lot number 26 - Auction 165
HEILIGE KATHARINA VON SIENA, STEHEND ALS GANZFIGUR, EINE LILIE IN DER RECHTEN HAND HALTEND

VENETIAN SCHOOL, AROUND 1480 / 1500 (Circle of Carlo Crivelli (Venice 1430 - Ascoli Piceno 1495)) SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA, STANDING FULL-LENGTH, HOLDING A LILY IN HER RIGHT HAND Oil tempera on poplar panel, remnants of old gilding. 146 x 45 cm (F. 163 x 62 cm). Old rest., old retouching, part. age-related craquelure. Frame. Compare Carlo Crivelli's Saint Bonaventure from the Bertinelli Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Also compare the large panel of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Provenance: Lempertz Auction House, Cologne, Auction 564, June 1978, lot 211.