St. Francis Holding the Christ Child in the Presence of the Virgin
Pietro Faccini
(Italian, about 1562–1602)
1590s
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsSheet: 34 x 24.7 cm (13 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark at the top and sides; lacking the blank bottom margin)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number64.2222
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ProvenancePierre Mariette II, Paris (1634-1716)(Lugt 1789), 1668; Cabinet Brentano-Birkenstock (founded 1765 by Johann-Melchior Birkenstock (1738-1809)), Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); William Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1964, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: January 13, 1965)
Pietro Faccini