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Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1630/34, Milwaukee Art Museum
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Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb

1630/34 · Oil on canvas · Milwaukee Art Museum

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About this painting

A friar stands in the dark holding a skull against his chest, and his face is gone under his hood. One bare foot shows beneath the wool. Zurbarán paints Francis as a pope was said to have found him: the Milwaukee Art Museum gives the legend, popular in the seventeenth century, that when Nicholas V visited the burial crypt at Assisi in 1449 the saint's uncorrupted, motionless body appeared above his coffin. The museum describes him standing full-length and life-size in Franciscan wool, a high peaked cowl casting his face into darkness, the stigmata on hands, feet and chest, a shaft of light on the skull he clutches. Few Baroque works, it says, address reality and illusion, substance and shadow, life and death so poignantly. Long dead, he is still holding his death with both hands.

Sources: Milwaukee Art Museum, 'Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb', M1958.70; read 2026-09-24. · Milwaukee Art Museum via Google Arts & Culture, 'Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb'; read 2026-09-24.

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The Record
Date 1630/34
Collection Milwaukee Art Museum
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 3,600 px
License Public domain
Attribution Milwaukee Art Museum · M1958.70

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598–1664)
Date 1630/34
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 80 5/8 × 44 5/8 in. (204.79 × 113.35 cm)
Holding Milwaukee Art Museum · M1958.70

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The file this print is made from

Source Francisco de Zurbarán - Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb, 1630-34.jpg
Master 3,600 px on the long edge
Rights Public domain — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistFrancisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598–1664)
Date1630/34
MuseumMilwaukee Art Museum
AccessionM1958.70
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions80 5/8 × 44 5/8 in. (204.79 × 113.35 cm)
Sheet sizes11×14 in
Provenance of the file
Held byMilwaukee Art Museum · M1958.70 the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Francisco de Zurbarán - Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb, 1630-34.jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master1,962 × 3,600 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons on 25 August 2026; held as our print master.

The sheets

11×14 in sheet 11×14 in · image 7.6×14 in · archival margin · 257 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,600 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.