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The Last Communion of Saint Francis
Agostino CarracciBefore 1596?
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
This painting derives from a composition by Camillo Procaccini (c.1555-1629) in the now-destroyed fresco scenes of the life of Saint Francis in the church of St Angelo, Milan.
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- Title: The Last Communion of Saint Francis
- Creator Lifespan: 1557 - 1602
- Date: Before 1596?
- Physical Dimensions: w559 x h670 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: Engraved with minor variations by T. Galle, presumably before 1596. Jaffe also published a drawing in a private collection, London.DPG255 derives from a composition by Camillo Procaccini (c.1555-1629) recorded in an engraving by Anton Wierix. The engraving may reflect one of the fresco scenes of the life of Saint Francis painted by Procaccini and others in the second cloister of St Angelo, Milan (now destroyed). A related drawing, probably by Procaccini, is at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Another painting deriving from the same prototype is in the Accademia Albertina, Turin, and is attributed to Denys Calvaert. DPG255 was catalogued as by Agostino Carracci in 1880, but this attribution is rejected by G. Feigenbaum (note on file, 1981) and Stephen Pepper (note on file, 1988, suggesting an attribution to Filippo Bellini).
- Work Nationality: Italian
- Support: Canvas
- Provenance: London, Noel Desenfans, 1786-1807: London, Christie's, Desenfans private sale, 8ff Apr. 1786, lot 124 (as L. Carracci); London, Skinner and Dyke, Desenfans sale, 27 Feb. 1795, lot 36 (as 'Carrache'); London, Noel Desenfans (1804 Insurance List, no. 76. As L. Carracci); London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Further Information: DPG255 derives from a composition by Camillo Procaccini (c.1555-1629) recorded in an engraving by Anton Wierix. The engraving may reflect one of the fresco scenes of the life of Saint Francis painted by Procaccini and others in the second cloister of St Angelo, Milan (now destroyed). A related drawing, probably by Procaccini, is at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Another painting deriving from the same prototype is in the Accademia Albertina, Turin, and is attributed to Denys Calvaert. DPG255 was catalogued as by Agostino Carracci in 1880, but this attribution was recently rejected (Art Historian Stephen Pepper suggested an attribution to Filippo Bellini).
- Ascribed to: Carracci, Agostino
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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