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Collections

Anonymous (Lombard School)
Saint Francis Comforted by an Angelcirca 1615

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Oil painting of a robed man lying on his back with eyes closed while a small winged cherub holding a violin hovers above him, set against dark rocks
Artist or Maker
Anonymous (Lombard School)
Artist or Maker
Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (attributed to) (called Morazzone)
Italy, Lombardy, 1573-1626
Title
Saint Francis Comforted by an Angel
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
circa 1615
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 46 1/2 × 62 in. (118.11 × 157.48 cm) Frame: 61 × 78 × 3 in. (154.94 × 198.12 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.73.6
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Private collection, Italy. [Frederick Mont Gallery, New York, sold 1973 to]; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.

  • Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.


  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.