Virgin and Child with two female saints

The Virgin is seated with her face inclined slightly to the right and holds the unclothed infant standing on her knee with both hands. St Katharine kneels to his left and with his right hand he places a ring on her little finger, while with his left hand he grabs an apple offered to him by the unidentified female figure kneeling to his right. She holds a pear ready to give him in her left hand. Numerous figures are represented without haloes. The Virgin's head is quite plain, but her long wavy hair falls over her shoulders, appearing light yellow against the red background; the undergarment that leaves her neck free has linear folds and is red with blue cuffs, the lining is yellow exhibiting folds that shimmer orange. St Katharine's dress is green with a broad reddish upper band and is gathered together with a belt. Her hair is concealed beneath a net bonnet, which is decorated along the forehead with a boarder of pearls. Around her neck she wears a wide decorative band, her décolleté is concealed in white and decorated with a double coarse-meshed chain and a slim cord further up. The second saint has flowing hair tied back above the forehead with a black band, a small cross hangs from her necklace, and a second loop of the same necklace hangs down over her bodice, that peeps out from beneath her dark red robe and is decorated with threaded pearls.

Behind this central group three winged angels hover holding a cloth that is almost black and exhibits a reddish sheen on the reverse of the folds. Above in the clouds there are three adoring angels and ten cherubs' heads are distributed across the curved top. The ground consists of a lawn with bluebells, strawberries and the like.

[Luksch 1920, n.p.]