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Object Type
print
Museum number
1853,0312.351
Title
Object:
Les pères du désert
Description
Two Franciscan monks in a landscape; one of the monks, modelled on Zurbaran's St Francis, stands in the centre foreground and looks up; the other sits behind him at right and reads a book; finished state with additionnal buring work in the shadows (?); 1823 restrike. 1797 Etching and drypoint, with some roulette and burin work
Producer name
Print made by:
Jean Jacques de Boissieu
After:
Francisco de Zurbarán
(St Francis)
School/style
French
Production date
1797
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
drypoint
Dimensions
Height:
490 millimetres
Width:
343 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
The figure in the centre foreground is copied after Zurbaran's St Francis, a painting which de Boissieu owned and sold to the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, in 1807. The rest of the composition is de Boissieu's own invention.
Bibliographic references
Perez 1994 / L'Oeuvre gravé de Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
(103.VI (?))
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(103)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian saint/martyr
christian monk/nun
Associated names
Representation of:
St Francis of Assisi
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date
1853
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1853,0312.351