# St Wendelin with a Donatrix

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## Artwork

- Artist: [WALTHER, Friedrich](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/walther-friedrich-r3039214fd6213e>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Oil on panel, 119 x 77 cm

## Commentary

This painting depicts St Wendelin with the donatrix Barbara Strauss of Nördlingen. It is signed FW and dated 1467. St Wendelin \(554-617\) was the son of a Scottish king; after a piously spent youth he secretly left his home on a pilgrimage to Rome. On his way back he settled as a hermit in Westricht in the Diocese of Trier. He is the patron saint of country people and herdsmen and is still venerated in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

## Related artworks

- [Sermon of St Albertus Magnus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/walther-friedrich-r3039214fd6213e/sermon-of-st-albertus-magnus-rc8735eaf5ea5d9>)

## Attribution

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