ST. FRAVCIS RECEIVING THE STIGMATA
Circa 1503 – 1504
With monogram
Inscription in the bottom:
VULNERA QUAE PROTER CHRISTUM FRANCISCE TULISTI ILLA ROGO NOSTRIS SINT MEDICINA MALIS (I pray: let the wounds that you, Francis, endured for Christ, be a medicine for our miseries)
220×145 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Early 16th century
No watermark
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2228
Comments:
the impression is clear, rich, made from an intact plate
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-112057, on paper with a watermark: a small coat of arms of a city (possibly Prague) (М. 273, Br. 2322, 1542–1545). A late 16th century impression, grey, not clear enough, the plate has 1-cm gaps in the top left corner of the frame (М. 224, c)
