JUAN DE VALDES LEAL Seville 1622 - 1690 Vision of Saint Francis in the Porziuncula. H. 1672-1680 Oil on canvas Measurements 63 x 47 cm Origin: - Francisco Farfán Ramos Collection, Seville, ca. 1871-1935. - Private collection, Malaga. Bibliography: - Gestoso y Pérez, José. Biography of the Sevillian painter Juan de Valdés Leal, Seville, 1916, p. 194. - Valdés Leal and Retrospective Art Exhibition, Seville, 1923, p. 18, cat. no. 39. - Kinkead, Duncan T. Juan de Valdés Leal (1622-1690) his life and work, New York, 1978, p. 473, cat. no. 157. - Valdivieso, Enrique. Juan de Valdés Leal, Seville, 1988, pp. 167 and 258, cat. no. 158. - Vision of Saint Francis in the Porziuncola" (catalog file by García Luque, Manuel) in Cat. Exp. "Valdés Leal (1622 - 1690)", Junta de Andalucía, Seville, 2021, cat. no. 37. Work exhibited in: - "Valdés Leal and Retrospective Art Exhibition", Seville, May 1922, cat. no. 39. - Valdés Leal (1622 - 1690)", Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, December - March 2022, cat. no. 37. This delicate work of undone and vibrant brushstrokes was unveiled by José Gestoso in 1916. After the anthological exhibition of 1922, traces of it were lost until its recent appearance in the painter's commemorative exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville in 2022. Its execution and theme are located in the artist's prime years when he was working on his monumental Vision of Saint Francis of the Capuchin Convent of Cabra (Córdoba).