Bernat de Quintaval Distributes his Riches to the Poor

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Currently on long-term loan in Museu Comarcal de Manresa
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Antoni Viladomat
Barcelona, 1678-1755
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This is one of a series of twenty paintings dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, illustrates the virtues of the saint from his birth to death. Until the Napoleonic invasion the series hung in the cloister of the great convent of Sant Francesc in Barcelona, next to the sea wall. Antoni Viladomat was the most important painter working in Catalonia in the first half of the 18th century. His aesthetic struck a chord in a society bent on regaining its social, economic and cultural dynamism after the shock of the War of the Spanish Succession.

 

bernat de quintaval

Painting

1729-1733

192 x 233 cm

Long-term loan from the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, 1902; acquired 1906

Inventory number: 

011551-000

Series on the life of Saint Francis, made up of 20 pictures, all of which can be found at the MNAC. From the former convent of Sant Francesc, Barcelona.
Oil on canvas
Century: 18th
Subject: Religion