Cameria, daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent, as Saint Catherine

Maker

Workshop of
(artist)
1488-1576

Title

Cameria, daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent, as Saint Catherine

Date of Production

(circa) 1560

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 99.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 71.5 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1978.PG.463

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords








Label Text

This picture may record a lost portrait by Titian of the daughter of the Turkish Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. Giorgio Vasari, a sixteenth-century artist and biographer, said Titian was asked to paint portraits of Suleiman’s favourite wife, and her daughter Cameria.
The spiked wheel, used to identify St Catherine of Alexandria, transforms the sultan’s daughter into a saint. This may have seemed appropriate because at the time Alexandria was part of the Ottoman Empire.

Provenance

Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art, National Museum, Cracow, Poland, 26/02/2014-31/05/2015

The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 26/02/2014-31/05/2015

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