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The crowned Saint Catherine is represented wearing a martyr's crown. She holds a book, to indicate her learning, and the sword by which she was executed; at her side is the wheel upon which she was tortured. The donor on the right of this picture is tonsured but is not in an ecclesiastical habit.
This work may have been painted in Rome.
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN



