Fuente de Cantos, Badajoz (Spain), 1598 - Madrid (Spain), 1664
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The figure shown here is identifiable, by his habit and the disc bearing the word charitas, as Saint Francis of Paola (1416-1507). The painting is a companion-piece - sharing the same date, size and composition - to Saint Francis in Prayer, also in the Prado (P008207). Both are superb examples of the shift towards greater luminosity and a more varied use of colour characteristic of Zurbarán’s later years.
Serrera, Juan Miguel, L´ultime étape de Zurbarán à Madrid. Contributions et réflexions, Gazette des beaux arts, 140 n 132 octobre, 1988, pp. 177-184 f.1-3.
Cherry, Peter, Seville and elsewhere Zurbarán, The Burlington magazine, February, 1999, pp. 131.
Delenda, Odile, Francisco de Zurbarán, 1598-1664. Catálogo razonado y crítico, T.I T.II, Fundación Arte Hispánico, Madrid, 2009, pp. T.I: 721-727 nº.268.
Portús, Javier, Francisco de Zurbarán. San Francisco de Paula, 1659, en: Memoria de Actividades 2022, Museo del Prado, 2023, pp. 28-30.
Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 3087.
Francisco/ Zurbaran /1659
Signed and dated.
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Room 010A (On Display)
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