About this work
St Mary ordering those who bound the widow's son to release him
Original catalogue wording
2. St Mary ordering those who bound the widow's son to release him | 7. The widow's son hanging from the scaffolding or the tree
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 012. St Mary ordering those who bound the widow's son to release himPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How our Lady Mary showed with her finger to release the thief; How the men of the monastery seized that thief, the son of the nun, and they bound his hands and his feet. And they wanted to cut his limbs with a knife, but our Lady saved him and they release him and he departed unharmed
- 027. The widow's son hanging from the scaffolding or the treePosition recorded by PEMM: left
- 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
- 134v
- 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 1834 (2 episode rows)