About this work
The priest Yoḥannǝs is depicted standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Original catalogue wording
1. The priest Yoḥannǝs is depicted standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child | 2. St Mary is taking out a breast and dropping her milk into the eyes of Yoḥannǝs
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The priest Yoḥannǝs is depicted standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: left
How the priest Yoḥannǝs prayed while he was blind before the icon of our Lady Mary; The icon of our Lady Mary with her beloved son
- 022. St Mary is taking out a breast and dropping her milk into the eyes of YoḥannǝsPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How our Lady Mary brought out her breast and brought forth milk and she annointed Yoḥannǝs' eyes with her finger and immediately he saw
- 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
- 90r
- 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 1811 (2 episode rows)