About this work
The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Original catalogue wording
1. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child | 2. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girl | 3. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
The woman whose name was Gera Anest, how she prayed before the icon of our Lady Mary with her blind daughter
- 022. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girlPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom
How that woman slept beneath the feet of the icon of our Lady Mary with her blind daughter after she finished the prayer; How our Lady Mary awakened the blind daughter from her sleep; The mother of the blind daughter
- 033. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyesPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How our Lady Mary opened the eyes of the blind girl with the milk of her breast
- 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
- 95v
- 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 1813 (3 episode rows)