About this work
The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosy
Original catalogue wording
1. The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosy | 2. The bishop praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosyPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
Abba Zacharias, the patriarch, who rebuked Mercurius and stopped him from performing the Eucharist on account of his leprosy; How Mercurius reveled the leprosy of his flesh to the patriarch.
- 022. The bishop praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How he prayed before the icon of our Lady and was healed from his leprosy; How our Lady Mary showed Mercurius with her hand that he was healed from his leprosy
- 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
- 111v
- 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 1822 (2 episode rows)