The Ecstasy of Saint Francis

1. Possibly Cardinal Bernardino Spada, Rome, to 1636 [see February 1636 inventory cited by Aurigemma, 1994]. Borghese Collection, Rome by 1650, probably until 1804 [Benedetti 1949, p. 4]. Cardinal Joseph Fesch, Rome [Benedetti, 1949, p. 4]; donated by him to the city of Lyon, France for a charity auction in 1836 [Benedetti 1949, p. 4]. M. Breval of Fontaine St. Martin, near Lyon [note in 1909 Louvre photo archive]. Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda, London and Dublin, to 1947 [purchase document from Agnew, March 1959]; sold by Earl of Drogheda through Agnew’s, London, to Michele de Benedetti, Rome, in June 1947; consigned by Benedetti to Agnew’s, 1959 [purchase document from Agnew, March 1959]; sold by Agnew’s to Mrs. Suzette Morton Zurcher (died 1996) (later Davidson), Santa Barbara and Chicago, March 1959; bequeathed to the Art Institute with her husband Eugene Davidson (died 2002) having life interest, 2002.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra del Caravaggio e dei Caravaggeschi, April – June 1951, cat. 51.
• Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Carravaggio en de Nederlanden, June 15–August 3, 1952, cat. 6; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, August 10–September 28 1952, cat. 6.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Caravaggio and his Followers, October 27, 1971–January 2, 1972, cat. 3.
• Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome, June 17—September 11, 2011, cat. 29; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, October 9, 2011—January 8, 2012.
• London, National Gallery, Beyond Caravaggio, October 12, 2016-January 15, 2017, cat. 11.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome, Sep. 8-Dec. 31, 2023, no cat.

• Domenico Montelatici,, Villa Borghese fuori di Porta Pinciana, (Rome, 1700), 216.
• Roberto Longhi, “Baglione,” Encyclopedia Italiana 5 (1930-8), 851-853.
• Michele de Benedetti, “Un Caravaggio già della Borghese ritrovato,” Emporium (July 1949): 3-14.
• Carla Guglielmi, “Intorno all’opera pittorica di Giovanni Baglione,” Bolletino d’Arte vol (1954): 313-314.
• Valentino Martinelli, “L’Amor divino ‘tutto ignudo’ di Giovanni Baglione e la cronologia dell’intermezzo caravaggesco.” Arte Antica e Moderna 5 (Jan./Mar. 1959): 82-90.
• Roberto Longhi, “Giovanni Baglione e il quadro del processo,” Paragone 163 (1963): 23- 31.
• Alfred Moir, The Italian Followers of Caravaggio (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967), vol. 1, 29-30, vol. 2 ,45 no. 10, fig. 29.
• Pamela Askew, “The Angelic Consolation of St. Francis of Assisi in Post-Tridentine Italian Painting,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32 (1969): 280-306.
• Dizionario Enciclopedico Bolaffi dei Pittori e Degli Incisori Italiani: Dall'XI al XX Secolo vol. : Abacco-Bellori (Torino: Giulio Bolaffi, 1972), 286 (ill.).
• Herwarth Röttgen, ed., Il Cavalier d’Arpino, exh. cat. (Rome: Luca, 1973), 101.
• Luigi Spezzaferro, “Una Testimonianza per gli Inizi del Caravaggismo,” Storia dell’Arte 23 (1975): 55n9, 58.
• Richard E. Spear, Caravaggion and His Followers, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), 44-45 no. 3 (ill.)

Sketches: Virgin and Child; Virgin and Child with Two Saints; Saint Baptizing Kneeling Figure

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Flight into Egypt

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Giovanni Baglione

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Mary Magdalene

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The Serf

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View of Ponte Lugano on the Anio, from Views of Rome

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Villa Pamphili outside Porta S. Pancrazio, from Views of Rome

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The Battle around the Shield and Lance

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