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Geertruy Haeck Kneeling in Prayer before Saint Agnes
Also titled Geertruy Haeck knielt in gebed voor Sint-Agnes
c. 1465
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 62.4 cm x width 48.3 cm x height 61 cm x width 46.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
This painting is a ‘memorial tablet’, intended to honour the memory of a deceased person. It probably hung near the tomb of Geertruy Haeck-van Slingelandt van der Tempel in the church of the convent of Saint Agnes in Dordrecht. Geertruy kneels in prayer in front of St. Agnes. Although Geertruy was not herself an ordained nun, she is dressed in a nun’s habit as a sign of her piety.
