Saint Francis in Ecstasy
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Gwynne Andrews Fund; and Gift in memory of Felix M. Warburg from his wife and children, Bequest and Gift of George Blumenthal, Bequests of Theodore M. Davis, Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, Helen Hay Whitney, Jean Fowles, in memory of her first husband, R. Langton Douglas, and Gifts of Coudert Brothers and Harry Payne Bingham Jr., by exchange, 2014
Catalogue
- Year
- 1645
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 77 × 53 1/4 in. (195.6 × 135.3 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist
Painting
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette.
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More by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Raising of Lazarus (recto); Travelers with Cart Outside Inn (verso)
1700 · Pen and black ink, and red chalk, with brush and gray wash (recto), and brush and black ink and black wash (verso), on cream wove paper
Bacchanal Before a Herm
1660 · oil and red-brown pigment
Pan and Olympus
1655 · etching on laid paper
David with the Head of Goliath
1655 · monotype in brown oil pigment on laid paper
La Mèlancolie
1655 · etching
Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark
1650 · Etching on ivory paper
Record
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- 1645
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 77 × 53 1/4 in. (195.6 × 135.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1645-006710
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified