St Francis receiving the Stigmata.

Etching, 33 x 46,2 cm, laid paper with unidentified watermark, signed in the plate at lower left "Gio. Fran.co Grimal. in. Sculp". (trimmed outside the platemark with thread margins, vert. folding crease at centre, some foxing, sm. brown spot at upper centre.

Dark and clear impression.

Large rare etching with St Francis praying in front of a crucifix while receiving the stigmata wounds from an angel at the upper right corner. Only state.
Ref. Bartsch XIX:50. - P. Bellini, "L'opera incisa di Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi", Bologna 2012, no. 5.