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Artist: Charles Pierre Joesph Normand (French, 1765 - 1840)
Title: Saint Margaret of Antioch.
Medium: Pen and ink on laid paper.
Image Size: Height 16 cm x Width 10.5 cm
Condition: Paper has overall toning and is trimmed close to the border with signs of age, leaves trimmed, browned, and partly stained and a small repaired tear.
Provenance: Private Collection, Germany.
About: A striking pen and ink drawing, after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Italian, 1483-1520), depicts Saint Margaret of Antioch. Famously known for an encounter with a lion and a dragon, early versions of her legend included the lion as one of the animals she trampled underfoot with the cross, symbolising her victory over spiritual and physical evil.
According to a 9th-century martyrology by Rabanus Maurus, Margaret suffered at Antioch in Pisidia (now in Turkey) around 304 during the Diocletianic Persecution. She was the daughter of a pagan priest named Aedesius.
Olybrius, Governor of the Roman Diocese of the East, asked to marry her, with the demand that she renounce Christianity. Upon her refusal, she was cruelly tortured, during which various miraculous incidents are reported to have occurred. One of these involved being swallowed by Satan in the shape of a dragon, from which she escaped alive when the cross she carried irritated the dragon's innards.
This was probably drawn for the 18th-century publication Annales du Musée et de l'École moderne des beaux-arts, which served as a comprehensive resource on European art and artists before the 19th century. The drawing is unframed and in a new acid-free mat.
Artist: Charles Pierre Joesph Normand (French, 1765 - 1840)
Title: Saint Margaret of Antioch.
Medium: Pen and ink on laid paper.
Image Size: Height 16 cm x Width 10.5 cm
Condition: Paper has overall toning and is trimmed close to the border with signs of age, leaves trimmed, browned, and partly stained and a small repaired tear.
Provenance: Private Collection, Germany.
About: A striking pen and ink drawing, after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Italian, 1483-1520), depicts Saint Margaret of Antioch. Famously known for an encounter with a lion and a dragon, early versions of her legend included the lion as one of the animals she trampled underfoot with the cross, symbolising her victory over spiritual and physical evil.
According to a 9th-century martyrology by Rabanus Maurus, Margaret suffered at Antioch in Pisidia (now in Turkey) around 304 during the Diocletianic Persecution. She was the daughter of a pagan priest named Aedesius.
Olybrius, Governor of the Roman Diocese of the East, asked to marry her, with the demand that she renounce Christianity. Upon her refusal, she was cruelly tortured, during which various miraculous incidents are reported to have occurred. One of these involved being swallowed by Satan in the shape of a dragon, from which she escaped alive when the cross she carried irritated the dragon's innards.
This was probably drawn for the 18th-century publication Annales du Musée et de l'École moderne des beaux-arts, which served as a comprehensive resource on European art and artists before the 19th century. The drawing is unframed and in a new acid-free mat.