COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03593
Record number:
03593-1
JCB call number:
EA671 R145v
Image title:
La Mere Caterine de St. Augustin Religieuse Hospitaliere de Quebec en Canada, ...
Creator 1:
Jean Patigny
Creator 1 dates:
fl. 1660-1670
Creator 1 role:
In. et Fecit.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Florentin Lambert]
Image date:
[1671]
Image function:
fold-out frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
16.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
15 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Nun holding a cross kneels before an angel who tramples a demon under the foot. Another angel holds a palm branch. Souls in purgatory plead for help. In the background, Father John de Brébeuf, holding a palm branch, attends the Virgin Mary and Christ seated in the clouds.
Source creator:
Ragueneau, Paul, 1608-1680
Source Title:
La vie de la mere Catherine de Saint Augustin, religieuse hospitaliere de la Misericorde de Quebec en la Nouvell-France
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Florentin Lambert, ruë saint Jacques vis-à-vis saint Yves, à la premiere chambre
Source date:
M. DC. LXXI. [1671]
notes:
Considered one of the co-founders of the church in Quebec, mother Marie-Catherine de Saint Augustin was known for her visions of hell and an apparition of Father John de Brébeuf.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1866.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles
Subject headings:
Catherine de Saint Augustin, Mother, 1632-1668
La Mere Caterine de St. Augustin Religieuse Hospitaliere de Quebec en Canada, ...
