Saint Francis in Ecstasy

Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

77 × 53 1/4 in. (195.6 × 135.3 cm)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy is a painting by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua), ca. 1650. Oil on canvas; 77 × 53 1/4 in. (195.6 × 135.3 cm). It is part of the European Paintings collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Gwynne Andrews Fund; and Gift in memory of Felix M. Warburg from his wife and children, Bequest and Gift of George Blumenthal, Bequests of Theodore M. Davis, Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, Helen Hay Whitney, Jean Fowles, in memory of her first husband, R. Langton Douglas, and Gifts of Coudert Brothers and Harry Payne Bingham Jr., by exchange, 2014.