About this work
The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sitting
Original catalogue wording
1. The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sitting | 2. The funeral of the eldest daugher, who is wrapped in a shroud and surrounded by persons | 3. The two other daughters standing next to the blacksmith
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sittingPosition recorded by PEMM: left
How the widow prayed to our Lady on behalf of the proverty of her three daughters; The widow; The three daughters of the widow: Mary, Martha, Yawahit
- 022. The funeral of the eldest daugher, who is wrapped in a shroud and surrounded by personsPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How they buried Mary, the daughter of the widow, just as our Lady when she died
- 033. The two other daughters standing next to the blacksmithPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How Tewog the craftsman received them and brought the daughters of the widow to his house; Martha, Yawahit, Tewog
- Source date
- 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)
- Shelfmark
- 55
- Folio
- 45v
- Recorded provenance
- Gondar
- Place evidence
- Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1510 (3 episode rows)