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

Not on view
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

Anonymous (Lombard School), Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (attributed to) (called Morazzone), Saint Francis Comforted by an Angel, circa 1615, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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.