Right wing of a diptych: St. Katharina

This right wing of a diptych showing Saint Catherine, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, depicts the learned princess-martyr with her traditional attributes. Rogier's workshop produced numerous devotional diptych wings combining saints with donor portraits Rogier van der Weyden combined exquisite emotional intensity with compositional clarity, making him the most influential Flemish painter of the mid-fifteenth century Oil on canvas, increasingly preferred over panel in the sixteenth century,

The saint is rendered with Rogier's characteristic clarity of line and jewel-like color. The precise rendering of her crown, book, and broken wheel establishes a careful iconographic identity within an elegant compositional format.