The Miraculous Mass of Saint Martin of Tours with the Apparition of a Ball of Fire above His Head

"The Miraculous Mass of Saint Martin of Tours with the Apparition of a Ball of Fire above His Head" is a drawing by Giovanni Lanfranco, executed in pen and brown ink. Its dimensions are 7 3/16 x 4 1/8 inches (18.2 x 10.5 cm). The work dates from 1602–47 and is classified within the Drawings and Prints department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, having been acquired as a Gift of Eric Wunsch in 1968.

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter, active from 1582 to 1647. The catalogue data does not provide information regarding the culture of the work, its specific provenance prior to the 1968 gift, or any exhibition history or literature featuring this particular drawing.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds several other works by Lanfranco, including "Putti and a Young Satyr at Play," "Male Figure Running," and "Seated Draped Male Figure (recto); Rough Studies of Putti (verso)," all broadly dated to 1582–1647. More specifically dated works include "Seated Apostles and Putti" (1637–38), "A Bearded Prophet in Glory Attended by a Bishop, Two Other Male Saints, and Angels (Design for a Section of a Dome)" (1634–35), and "The Martyrdom of the Apostle Thomas" (1638–46).