About this work
The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene
Original catalogue wording
1. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene | 2. The painter falling down from the scaffold | 3. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painter | 4. A group of demons look on
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scenePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How the painter painted the garden, the residence of the saints, and the fires of Sheol, the residence of the devil and his hosts; The garden, residence of the saints; The scaffolding on which he was painting
- 022. The painter falling down from the scaffoldPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
The scaffolding that was knocked down along with that painter
- 033. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painterPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How our Lady raised up the painter grasping him with her hand
- 044. A group of demons look onPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
Sheol, residence of the demons
- 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
- 24v
- 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 1683 (4 episode rows)