Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata of Christ from the seraph. Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1586.

  • Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602.
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1586 ;
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564154i
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Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata of Christ from the seraph. Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1586. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"St. François tombant en extase, pendant qu'un chérubin imprime sur son corps les stigmates des playes de Jésus Christ. Son compagnon, lisant dans un livre, est assis dans le fond à gauche. Au milieu du devant est jette à terre un livre, une tête de mort et une feuille de papier, sur laquelle est écrit: Ego enim stigmata domini nri Jesu Christi in corpore meo por to. A gauche on lit: Agostino Caracci forma. Bologna. 1586. La marge d'en bas offre l'inscription suivante : Signasti domine ser.vvm tuum Franciscum, signis redemptionis nostrae. Hauteur : 16 p. 4 lign. La marge d'en bas : 6 lign. Largeur : 11 p. 8 lign. Les épreuves postérieures portent cette adresse: et nunc apud Philippum Thomassinum, écrite à la suite de celle d'Aug. Carrache. Les dernières épreuves qui sont très foibles, ont l'adresse de Jean Jacques Rossi. 1649."--Bartsch, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

Bologna : Agostino Caracci formo, 1586 ; Romae : Et nunc apud Philippu(m) Thomassinu(m) ; Romae (alla Pace) : Gio. Iacomo de Rossi formis, 1649.

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 44.2 x 31.4 cm

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Lettering

Signasti domine serum tuum Franciscum signis redemptionis nostrae. Lettering has "serum" by mistake for "servum" A sheet of paper on the ground bears lettering: "Ego enim stigmata domini n(ost)ri Iesu Christi in corpore meo porto"

Edition

[State III of 3].

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, vol. XVIII, Vienna 1818, p. 72, no. 68 ("68. St. François recevant les stigmates. ...")
Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family, London: Indiana University Press, 1979, no. 140, pp. 240-241

Reference

Wellcome Collection 564154i

Creator/production credits

Part of the landscape is derived from a painting of Saint Vincent by Lodovico Carracci, while "the figure of Saint Francis ... probably belongs to Agostino" (DeGrazia Bohlin, loc. cit.)

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