Description: Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 1 and on the old mount: 1003 (Sparre)

Tessin's collection of Valesio drawings originally counted 60 sheets. In this catalogue 30 drawings are still listed as works by him. Tessin acquired two of the three lots of the artist's drawings in the Crozat sale. The material can be traced back to two or three sources and is the largest group of sheets by Valesio known today. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1653]

Titel (sv): Den helige Fransisksus som håller Jesusbarnet och knäböjer inför Madonnan i skyn
Titel (en): St Francis Holding the Christ Child and Kneeling before the Madonna in the Sky