Jan van Eyck - St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata 1427

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Jan van Eyck - St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata 1427

St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata 1427
12x14cm oil on vellum on panel
Sabauda Gallery, Turin, Italy.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

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From Publication Philadelphia Museum of Art Handbook (2014 Edition):
During a forty-day fast in the wilderness, Francis of Assisi had a vision in which he received the wounds of the crucified Christ, who here appears held aloft by a seraph. Although Jan van Eyck positioned the scene in the rocky mountain of the legend, in a bravura display of his microscopic technique, he included a bustling Netherlandish city in the distance. This is one of two nearly identical versions of the picture (the other being in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin). One of them or a copy was owned by the painter Joan Reixac of Valencia (see Philadelphia Museum of Art, inv. 203), where it had a profound effect on local artists. Carl Brandon Strehlke, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014, p. 95.