Death of Saint Francis Xavier, holding a crucifix and looking at the sky. Engraving, ca. 1840.

Date:
1840
Reference:
563314i
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"The iconography of the saint's death on Sancian Island goes back to the Portuguese painter André Rainoso's cycle at São Roque in Lisbon (1619) and was standardised in Rome in the 1670s by Pietro da Cortona, Ciro Ferri, Baciccio and Carlo Maratti into a scene of the recumbent saint on a mat of reeds with his hands crossed -- usually over a crucifix as originally was the case with the Santiago version--and his eyes closed in death or raised heavenwards in ecstasy"--Baily and Guzman, loc. cit.

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Paris (rue St. Jacques 30) : Letaille

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 5.8 x 4.2 cm

Lettering

Saint François Xavier; fête le 3 Décembre; à qui Dieu est tout, le monde entier n'est rien!... Il expire dans un dénuement universel mais le ciel est dans son coeur Bears number: Pl. 116. Bears prayer on verso.

References note

Gauvin Alexander Bailey and Fernando Guzmán, 'Two German sculptors who transformed the arts of colonial Chile: Johannes Bitterich and Jacob Kelner', The Burlington magazine, 2014, CLVI: 741-745, p. 744 (iconography of the death of Saint Francis Xavier)

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Wellcome Collection 563314i

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