Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

A pen and ink drawing with gray wash shows a crowd of hooded friars standing in rows beneath a band of angels and a haloed figure in a roundel at the top. In the foreground, kneeling mourners bend over a long figure laid out on a bier, while a bishop in vestments stands at the center of the procession.

Look closer: Small inscription in the lower left corner, partly legible.

Artist

William Young Ottley

Date

1795–1836

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3232 × 3313 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of James David Draper, 1980