Saint Francis Conversing with a Person

1788 - 1789. Oil on canvas.
On display elsewhere

Saint Francis and an elegantly dressed figure wearing a feathered cap -he may be the mayor of Assisi- converse alongside a tree trunk at the right. This is the episode in which the mayor cedes a plot of land to Saint Francis for a residence and place of prayer. Some burger appear in the background, one with a mallet over his shoulder, while a young man in the foreground holds a rope tied to a stake driven into the ground as a means of measuring the land.

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Series

Vida de San Francisco. Claustro de la Iglesia de San Francisco el Grande, Madrid

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Inventory number: P003489
Author: Antonio Carnicero
Title: Saint Francis Conversing with a Person
Date: 1788 - 1789
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Height: 216 cm; Width: 274 cm
Series: Vida de San Francisco. Claustro de la Iglesia de San Francisco el Grande, Madrid
Provenance: Madrid, Franciscan convent of Jesús y María, popularly known as San Francisco el Grande, Cloister: Museo de la Trinidad

Bibliography +

Ponz, Antonio, Viage de España. Vol. I, Joachin Ibarra, Madrid, 1793, pp. 109.

Espinós, Adela; Orihuela, Mercedes y Royo Villanova, Mercedes, "El Prado disperso". Cuadros depositados en Madrid. I. Iglesia de San Francisco el Grande, Boletín del Museo del Prado, I, 1980, pp. 57.

Martinez Ibañez, Maria Antonia, Antonio Carnicero Mancio, Pintor. Vol. II. Tesis Doctoral, III, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1987, pp. 295, nº2.

Martínez Ibáñez, María Antonia, La pintura de Antonio Carnicero Mancio en el Prado, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XI, 1990, pp. 37-41.

Antonio Carnicero: 1748-1814, Cat. exp., Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Madrid, 1997.

Other inventories +

Inv. Museo de la Trinidad, Pintura. Núm. 1021.
1021. / Un religº fran.no ablando con un personaje, á la izq.da se ve una figª con una cuerda en las manos. F.s del tamº nat.l y cuerpo entº / F.do Carnicero / Alto 2,16 1/2; ancho 2,72 / Id. id. id.