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Pietro Faccini, artist
Italian, 1562 - 1602
St. Francis Holding The Infant Christ in the Presence of the Virgin, late 16th century
Etching
35.8 x 25 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Purchase 1964.142.76

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Artist Biography: Painter and printmaker, educated as a pharmacist. Born in Bologna ca. 1562, died there 1602. Student at Carracci Academy.Sopher, Marcus S. See: Seventeenth Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1978, Stanford University, pp. 42-3.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920. vol. XVIII. ~Birke, Veronica. Italian masters of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The Illustrated Bartsch vol. 40; Commentary vol. 40, pt. 1.~