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Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk
Francesco Saverio Mergalo1776
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Recto: Vertical composition framed by a thick line of pen and black ink in the shape of a tombstone with concave corners. Depicted is angel supporting the collapsing saint. One points at an open book in the foreground at right. In the foreground at left are the upper parts of a Demon and of a woman chained to a stone wall. In the background at right is the Purgatory, with an angel liberating a soul. The composition has been squared in graphite. Verso: Above is a head, shown in profile; outlined. Below folded hands. Written below: "Mergolo" (erased) 1776/Egreg[ia] (erased) S[ignor]a E...
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Details
- Title: Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk
- Creator: Francesco Saverio Mergolo
- Creator Lifespan: 1746/1786
- Date Created: 1776
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Brush and brown ink with gray wash; verso: pen and brown ink with black chalk on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Giovanni Piancastelli; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brandegee
- Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
- Inscribed: Recto, bottom margin, right, in pen and black ink: Mergolo;Verso, in graphite (erased): Mergolo; 1776 / Egreg[ia] (erased); S[ignor]a E. . . (erased); in ink: celoi / Zeppo.
- Dimensions: 33.4 x 24 cm (13 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
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