St Margaret of Antioch
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
Her emblem is the thing that ate her. Satan in disguise, says the Golden Legend: the dragon swallowed Margaret, and she burst from its belly unharmed, patron of childbirth ever after.
She gazes past him, dressed for walking, not martyrdom: a shepherdess in lambskin and straw, a finger keeping her place in the prayer book.
Isabelle Kent identifies the bag as an alforja from the Peruvian mountains, likely a Seville-market curio. Dozens of his canvases sailed the other way. His female saints went out in series, largely by assistants. This one, his alone, seems to belong to none.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, NG1930, object page (iconography and legend) · Isabelle Kent, 'The dark arts of Francisco de Zurbaran', Apollo Magazine
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,226 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.