Antique eighteenth-century copper engraving with St Colette Boylet kneeling at a prie-dieu, with the crucifix and the skull, on a base imitating that of a carved image. Below: "S.ta Coleta Bollet. Reformadora de las Clarisas".
Antique eighteenth-century copper engraving with St Colette Boylet kneeling at a prie-dieu, with the crucifix and the skull, on a base imitating that of a carved image. Below: "S.ta Coleta Bollet. Reformadora de las Clarisas".
Colette Boylet was born at Corbie, in the north of France, in 1381 and reformed the Second Franciscan Order, from which the Colettine Poor Clares arose.
Medium: Copper engraving
Date: 18th century
Dimensions: 2.8 x 3.9 in (7 x 9.8 cm)
Condition: Fair; toned paper with rust and damp staining spread over the sheet