Copper engraving after Claudio Coello's St. Francis in Portiuncula: the saint, kneeling and seen from behind, receives the apparition of the Virgin and Christ among angels. Drawn by E. Soler and engraved by Federico Navarrete for the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando.
Copper engraving after Claudio Coello's St. Francis in Portiuncula: the saint, kneeling and seen from behind, receives the apparition of the Virgin and Christ among angels. Drawn by E. Soler and engraved by Federico Navarrete for the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando.
It represents the Portiuncula jubilee, the indulgence gained on 2 August in Franciscan churches and convents. It is dated about 1864, since on 26 June of that year the engraver was paid 2,000 reales, according to the archive of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Medium: Copper engraving
Artist / after: Claudio Coello (painting); E. Soler (drawing)
Engraver / lithographer: Federico Navarrete
Date: About 1864
Source: Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando
Dimensions: 11.8 x 17.1 in (30 x 43.5 cm)
Condition: It retains the protective tissue; abundant foxing in the margins of the sheet.