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St Francis in Meditation
about 1650–1655 · oil on canvas · Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
For Saint Francis of Assisi · 4 October
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image 12.5×20 in on a 16×20 in sheet
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Francis kneels in a cave with his hands locked together, and his eyes go up past the rock to the light. On the ledge beside him lie an open book and a skull, and that is all he owns. Sotheby's reads the grotto as an echo of his hermit caves at La Verna and Poggio Bustone, and the skull beside the book as reading and dying held as one act of devotion. The design is Zurbarán's, and this canvas is his workshop's repetition of it; the first version, of about 1650 to 1655, is in the San Diego Museum of Art. Newfields records no church that ordered it, and its earliest known owner was a Spanish duke, the fifth Duke of Granada de Ega. A duke kept the portrait of a man with a book and a skull.
Sources: Sotheby's, 'Contemplation Divine' sale, 2014, lot 25 essay · Spanish Art in the US (spanishart.us), San Diego Museum of Art entry · Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, published provenance for accession 62.13