Saint Agnes
Also titled Sint-Agnes
Adriaen van Wesel (Utrecht, 1415–na 1)
c. 1470 - c. 1480
- Medium
- oak (wood)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 56.2 cm x width 19 cm x depth 9.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Saint Agnes, who was put to death by the Romans for her Christian faith and thereafter worshipped as a martyr, was depicted by Adriaen van Wesel as a graceful, medieval noblewoman. The lamb at her feet alludes to her having appeared after her death, wearing a golden robe, with a white lamb (agnus, the Latin for lamb) at her side.
