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Large Antique Oil on Canvas After Murillo – St. Francis Embracing Christ – Catholic Devotional Painting, Irish Framer Label
I have fairly heavily researched this painting , though have not had it evaluated by a professional as of yet. Here is a lot of info I have gathered.
* Oil on canvas* Approximately 40 x 28 inches* Old Irish framing labelM. Ward & Sons, Newry* Reverse marked \"S. Francesco\" and \"Murillo\"* This was purchased along with a vast estate collection of Catholic church items* After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo\'s famous composition* Sold as attributed to the period, not authenticatedThis painting is after Murillo’s Saint Francis Embracing the Crucified Christ, 1668–69, originally for the Capuchin Convent church in Seville, now Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla. The museum description matches the exact iconography: globe under Francis’s foot, two angels holding Luke 14:33, and Christ releasing one arm to embrace Francis.Identifiable as after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo\'s Saint Francis Embracing Christ on the Cross
Key archival finds:
The original is documented as oil on canvas, 291 × 191 cm, accession CE0129P, with provenance from the Capuchin Convent church, Seville, transferred to the Sevilla museum in 1840.Harvard Art Museums has a documented “Copy after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo” of this same composition, proving that old painted copies circulated and were collected.A known 1875 Paris etching by Léopold Flameng after Murillo also exists, meaning 19th-century artists had printed sources to copy from.The reverse inscription on yours, “S. FRANCESCO,” likely identifies the subject in Italian, not the artist.
ME: This painting also has the name Murillo painted in red underneath S Francesco.
FINAL COMMENTS: I m not a professional and can only go from my own research on the origins and likelihood of this painting - but everything I have found points to an old genuine copy of the original paintingI\'m happy share all notes and links that i found as to the providence of this piece.
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