A dozen people surround a woman reclining in a bed in front of a gleaming gold background in this vertical painting. All the people have pale skin. Red curtains drape from a shallow awning hanging over the head of the bed to our right, and the foot of the bed almost reaches the left side of the panel. The woman on the bed, Saint Clare, lies back against pillows with her hands crossed over her chest and her eyes closed. A white cloth covers her body from the waist down. She and two women attending to her from behind the head of the bed wear nun’s habits with black robes and head coverings…
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The Death of Saint Clare

Master of Heiligenkreuz (Austrian, active c. 1395 - 1420)

c. 1400/1410

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 66.3 x 54 cm (26 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.) ; support: 67.5 x 55.3 cm (26 9/16 x 21 3/4 in.) ; framed: 85.7 x 74.3 x 5.7 cm (33 3/4 x 29 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
Austrian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art

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