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St. Francis Beneath a Tree Praying, 1657
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Rembrandt van Rijn |
| Spatial Coverage | Holland |
| Temporal Coverage | 1657 |
| Description | Rembrandt saturated the dark, inky forest of his Saint Francis beneath a Tree Praying with velvety burr along drypoint lines and deep tone wiped selectively throughout the plate. Instead of the Dutch Reformed Church, this image reflects the vision of the Roman Catholic Church in its emphasis on the lives of the saints and therefore may have been a private commission. The unusually elderly Saint Francis gazes toward a large crucifix, which might be real or imagined, within the forest glade and speaks directly to it. With his head angled and mouth open, Francis is hardly passive in prayer but rather an active advocate of Christianity. [A work made of etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. |
| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Etching Paper (fiber Product) Print Prints and Drawings Ink Laid Paper Drypoint Artworks |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Visual Artwork |
| Object Type | Drawing |
