I need help. I have a photo, probably taken 15 years ago, in a church in Paris. It is of a woman, holding a sailing ship in one hand, and a staff (oar?) in the other. There is a lamb at her feet. I'm headed back to Paris in May. I'd love to revisited it. Probably taken in a church somewhere around Notre Dame.
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
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Is it freestanding or two-dimensional? Painted or plain? Stone? Can you describe anything behind it or any other characteristics?
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Northamptonshire, England
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if you scan it to the web and then ask google for similar you may get a result
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OP
Amsterdam
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I note that I have written "St C". Sainte-Chapelle perhaps. The statue is plain stone. It stands on a base about 4 ft high. It is tucked back in a niche that is paneled in dark wood. There are candles lit in front of the statue.
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Corvallis OR
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I took a ton of pictures of the statues in Sainte-Chapelle and I don't have anything like that and I don't remember any statue like that. Is it possible the St. C you wrote could be St Catherine? If so, it could be in another church in Paris. Wish I could help you.
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victoria, Canada
11507 posts
That might be Saint Ursula.. google for images and see if it matches.
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L'Occitanie, France
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Saint Catherine of Siena has those attributes in some statues. Now to find which church--
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
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It's Sainte Geneviève, patron saint of Paris. She's sometimes portrayed with a lamb at her feet, and I've found pix of several sculptures with her holding a ship although more commonly, a book.
I believe the one you're looking for is in Église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis (99 Rue Saint-Antoine, 75004) in the Marais.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis,_statue_Sainte_Geneviève.JPG
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ae/a1/9c/aea19c8b268144193ca8d0c89381b262.jpg
We saw the shrine which once contained her relics in St-Etienne-du-Mont, near the Pantheon. That church has a gorgeous and very rare double-spiral rood screen so go see it too!
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Chicago
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St. Etienne is also where Owen Wilson is picked up by the car from the past in Midnight in Paris.
Posted by
OP
Amsterdam
556 posts
Yay! That's it! Thank you.
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
15807 posts
You're welcome. Enjoy Paris!
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Paris
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Wow, I wondered about this when I saw the question. Never fear, a Forum stalwart found the answer! Amazing!
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Florida, USA
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I had my best crepe ever on my first day in Paris. It was somewhere in the sixth. It was on a road with a lot of shops, restaurants, cafes. Can anyone tell me where it was? ;-)
It's funny how someone here seems to know just about everything.
Now about that crepe?