Saint Francis in the Desert
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
Whatever stood at the top of this panel was cut away. Scholars have long suspected a seraph. What is left to deliver the stigmata is light from the top left corner, as the Frick reads it.
The wounds are faint: two red marks on the open hands, none at the side. The habit is clean; the wound on his left hand lies entirely in shadow. The Frick calls the understatement deliberate.
Marcantonio Michiel saw it at Taddeo Contarini's in 1525 and called it a panel of St. Francis in the desert. No miracle in the title it still carries.
Sources: The Frick Collection, object record, St. Francis in the Desert · Rutherglen and Hale, In a New Light (Frick / D Giles), published excerpt · The Frick Collection, 'Mapping Provenance: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert' · The Frick Collection, exhibition entry · The Washington Post, on Bellini's St. Francis at Frick Madison, 2021
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 30,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.