About this work
The group of virgins gathered around the well while one of them chases away the thirsty dog
Original catalogue wording
1. The group of virgins gathered around the well while one of them chases away the thirsty dog | 2. St Mary giving the dog water to drink from her shoe
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The group of virgins gathered around the well while one of them chases away the thirsty dogPosition recorded by PEMM: right
The virgins of the temple, fetchers of water who drove away that thirsty dog; the jars of the virgins; How the girl struck the thirsty dog and drove it away from the water; The pitcher; The well of water
- 022. St Mary giving the dog water to drink from her shoePosition recorded by PEMM: left
How our Lady Mary gave a drink of water to a thirsty dog where she went out to draw water with the virgins of the temple
- 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
- 139r
- 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 1836 (2 episode rows)