About this work
ʾAnǝsṭāsyos standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Original catalogue wording
1. ʾAnǝsṭāsyos standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and Child | 2. ʾAnǝsṭāsyos lying before St Mary, who together with the Child is extending her hand towards him
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. ʾAnǝsṭāsyos standing praying in a church before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: left
How ʾAnǝsṭāsyos prayed standing before the icon of our Lady; Icon of our Lady Mary and her beloved Son; Incense; Incense
- 022. ʾAnǝsṭāsyos lying before St Mary, who together with the Child is extending her hand towards himPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How our Lady Mary spoke the report of rejoicing to ʾAnǝsṭāsyos while he was laying in his illness
- 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
- 123r
- 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 1828 (2 episode rows)