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 upon which the painter painted
- 022. The painter falling down from the scaffoldPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How the painter was knocked down
- 033. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painterPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How our Lady Mary raised up the painter grasping him with her hand
- 044. A group of demons look onPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
Sheol, the residence of demons
- Source date
- 1667-1706
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Shelfmark
- 2002.4
- Folio
- 76r
- Recorded provenance
- Originally sold to Sam Fogg, Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London, by 1998 [research report in curatorial file; Fogg and Hosking, 2001, no. 19]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002. Catalog by Getatchew Haile in PEMM Dropbox
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1804 (4 episode rows)