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Object Type
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
Production date: 1797
Materials
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
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1853
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1853,0312.351

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