# Saint Clare

- By: Joseph Désiré Court (Rouen, 1797–1865)
- Date: c. 1838
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 83 cm x width 66 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-303--808eee31cf55475dcb68d46e9ec9c872)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f38df4fd011dd22d727a0e30563d674e.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Saint Clare is reading the Bible, bathed in light. Also known as ‘the luminous one,’ Saint Clare was a 13th-century Italian nun who devoted herself to spirituality and renounced all earthly possessions. She gained a vast following and was canonized just four days after her death. The painter Court chose not to depict her in a habit, instead inventing a medievalinspired version of her clothing and hairstyle.