Ancient painting of Saint Francis Xavier, oil on canvas mid-century XVIII NEGOTIABLE PRICE
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MEASURES IN CM with frame 111 x 86 - professional packaging insured shipping with couriers delivery by appointment only street level no porterage to the floors. DESCRIPTION Beautiful antique Italian oil painting on canvas. Excellent pictorial quality, great attention to detail. Italian school of the 18th century. Not signed. Religious subject Saint Francis Xavier. Francisco de Jasso Azpilicueta Atondo y Aznares de Javier, commonly known by the Italianized name in Francis Xavier, was a Spanish Jesuit and missionary, proclaimed a saint in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV. He was a pioneer in the spread of Christianity in Asia. Sold with a beautiful ebonized wood frame and a contemporary, non-coeval golden profile