Saint Francis de Paul (San Francesco da Paola) healing a young man with an ulcered leg. Etching by Giandomenico Tiepolo.

The miraculous cure of a man with the diseased leg may be that which is described in the Acta Sanctorum, op. cit., pp. 125-126, though here the man is younger

On the left stands Saint Francis de Paul, his left hand outspread in benediction. Before him on the right is seated a young man whose left leg is exposed to show a small ulcer. The saint is shown as in the painting by Giandomenico Tiepolo of him exorcising the devil from a young man (Venice, church of San Francesco da Paola, 1748), but in reverse (Mariuz pls. 25-26) However, the young man in the present etching does not appear in that painting: the young man in the etching is the same figure (but in reverse) as appears in the same painter's altarpiece of St Oswald beseeching the Holy Family for a miracle, 1750, in the parish church at Merlengo (Mariuz pl. 27), with a leg ulcer added in the present etching

[Venice], [between 1750 and 1759?]

1 print : etching ; platemark 19.3 x 10.5 cm

S. Francesco di Paula. Domenico Tiepolo inv. e incid.

State 1 of 2 (before shading added to balustrade).

Acta Sanctorum, vol. 10, Paris and Rome 1866, pp. 105-234 "De S. Francisco de Paula, Institutore ordinis Minorum"

Adriano Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venezia: Alfieri 1971 (Profili e saggi di arte veneta 9)

Alexandre de Vesme, Le peintre-graveur italien, Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906, no. 61

Aldo Rizzi, The etchings of the Tiepolos, London 1971, no. 56

Christopher Mendez, Old master prints, catalogue no. 84, October 2001, London 2001, no. 33

Wellcome Collection 544263i