The Ecstasy of Saint Francis
Giovanni Baglione (Italian, 1566–1643)
1601
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Generally considered Giovanni Baglione’s most accomplished painting, this work is his first known “Caravaggesque” picture—that is, one that incorporates the innovative use of realistic figure types and dramatic lighting favored by the painter Caravaggio beginning in the late 1590s. Saint Francis swoons in ecstasy into the arms of an angel after meditating on the instruments used to torture Jesus, presented by another angel on the left. Baglione’s brief Caravaggesque phase ended after 1603, when, in an infamous trial, he accused Caravaggio of slander for having distributed a series of malicious poems about him.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 155.3 × 116.8 cm (61 1/8 × 46 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 7 exhibitions
Provenance
- Possibly Cardinal Bernardino Spada, Rome, to 1636.
- Borghese Collection, Rome by 1650, probably until 1804.
- Cardinal Joseph Fesch, Rome; donated by him to the city of Lyon, France for a charity auction in 1836.
- M. Breval of Fontaine St. Martin, near Lyon.
- Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda, London and Dublin, to 1947; sold by Earl of Drogheda through Agnew’s, London, to Michele de Benedetti, Rome, in June 1947; consigned by Benedetti to Agnew’s, 1959; sold by Agnew’s to Mrs. Suzette Morton Zurcher (died 1996) (later Davidson), Santa Barbara and Chicago, March 1959; bequeathed to the Art Institute with her husband Eugene Davidson (died 2002) having life interest, 2002.
Exhibitions
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra del Caravaggio e dei Caravaggeschi, April – June 1951.
- Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Carravaggio en de Nederlanden, June 15–August 3, 1952; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, August 10–September 28 1952.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Caravaggio and his Followers, October 27, 1971–January 2, 1972.
- Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome, June 17—September 11, 2011; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, October 9, 2011—January 8, 2012.
- London, National Gallery, Beyond Caravaggio, October 12, 2016-January 15, 2017.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome, Se.
- 31, 2023, no cat.
