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Elle porte aujourd\u2019hui dans la main gauche un livre (main et livre modernes) et, de la droite, retient la fus\u00e9e d\u2019une longue \u00e9p\u00e9e (garde et pommeau refaits) dont la pointe touche le sol. Le visage est arrondi, entour\u00e9 de longs cheveux ondul\u00e9s qui retombent en pointe dans le dos. Sa robe, dont les plis viennent s\u2019\u00e9craser en biais sur le sol, est couverte d\u2019un grand manteau dont le pan, drap\u00e9 sur le torse en ondes r\u00e9guli\u00e8res, est coinc\u00e9 sous le bras gauche, formant une cascade de plis en arabesques et \u00ab en cornets \u00bb ; dans le dos les plis, verticaux sur la gauche, s\u2019embo\u00eetent sur la droite en une chute de plis circulaires.\r\nLa disparition de l\u2019attribut que la Sainte tenait \u00e0 l\u2019origine dans la main gauche a g\u00ean\u00e9 son identification. La grande \u00e9p\u00e9e qu\u2019elle retient dans l\u2019autre main, et qui correspond \u00e0 celle de la statue monumentale de sainte Catherine d\u2019Alexandrie \u00e0 Notre-Dame de Courtrai, attribu\u00e9e \u00e0 Andr\u00e9 Beauneveu vers 1374-1384, peut indiquer que la statuette d\u2019ivoire avait aussi une petite roue dans sa main gauche. L\u2019identification avec une sainte Catherine reste donc tr\u00e8s probable.\r\nLe rapprochement avec la sainte Catherine de Courtrai s\u2019impose encore plus sur le plan stylistique. On retrouve en effet sur l\u2019ivoire les qualit\u00e9s de la statue monumentale : \u00e9l\u00e9gance de la silhouette aux \u00e9paules \u00e9troites, souplesse et fluidit\u00e9 des drap\u00e9s dispos\u00e9s de fa\u00e7on analogue, moelleux presque \u00e9lastique des chairs. Ces liens \u00e9vidents avec la statue de Courtrai plaident en faveur d\u2019une attribution \u00e0 l\u2019entourage d\u2019Andr\u00e9 Beauneveu, qui travailla pour Charles V et Jean de Berry, et pour une datation similaire, vers 1380-1390. L\u2019ivoirier a cependant introduit une interpr\u00e9tation personnelle dans le l\u00e9ger hanchement de la silhouette, dans la subtile inclinaison de la t\u00eate, de proportions plus fortes, dans la disposition des cheveux, ici plus traditionnelle pour un ivoire, et dans l\u0027aspect doux et juv\u00e9nile du visage, sur lequel se dessine l\u2019ombre d\u2019un sourire.","inscriptions":"Inscription : \r ; \u00e0 l\u0027encre noire \u00222584\u0022","namesAndTitles":"","onomastics":"","dimension":[{"type":"Hauteur","value":"24,5","displayDimension":"24,5 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":1,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur","value":"7,5","displayDimension":"7,5 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":2,"note":""},{"type":"Epaisseur","value":"5,6","displayDimension":"5,6 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":3,"note":""}],"shape":"","materialsAndTechniques":"Mat\u00e9riau : ivoire d\u0027\u00e9l\u00e9phant = d\u00e9fense d\u0027\u00e9l\u00e9phant\r\nTechnique : polychrome (techniques bambou\/ bois\/ corne\/ ivoire\/ \u00e9caille-\u003Epeint = peinture) (traces de polychromie)","placeOfCreation":"Paris (France-\u003EIle-de-France = Ile de France)","dateOfDiscovery":"","placeOfDiscovery":"","provenance":"","historicalContext":[],"objectHistory":"Collection du vicomte de Mal\u00e9zieux ? ; sa vente, h\u00f4tel des ventes rue Drouot, Paris, 22-24 novembre 1852, lot 291 ; collection Louis-Charles Timbal (1821-1880), \u00e0 Paris (n\u00b0 58) ; acquise en 1882.","jabachInventory":"","napoleonInventory":"","previousOwner":[{"value":"M. 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