Follower of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco

Of the ten different instances in which El Greco depicted Saint Francis, only three autograph examples in which Saint Francis stands in meditation are known (see H.E. Wethey, El Greco and his School, 1962, II, pp. 122-3), two of which are in the Joselyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, and the Federico Torello Collection, Barcelona and the third sold at Christie's, New York, 15 October 1998, lot 103.