St. Francis Holding the Christ Child in the Presence of the Virgin

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St. Francis Holding the Christ Child in the Presence of the Virgin

Pietro Faccini (Italian, about 1562–1602)

1590s

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 34 x 24.7 cm (13 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark at the top and sides; lacking the blank bottom margin)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number64.2222

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 1; Illustrated Bartsch 1, only state

Marks Verso, upper left, in pen and brown ink, the mark of Pierre Mariette II, Paris (1634-1716)(Lugt 1789), 1668; verso, bottom left, stamped in blue-green ink, the mark of the Cabinet Brentano-Birkenstock, Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); verso, left center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenancePierre Mariette II, Paris (1634-1716)(Lugt 1789), 1668; Cabinet Brentano-Birkenstock (founded 1765 by Johann-Melchior Birkenstock (1738-1809)), Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1964, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: January 13, 1965)