Citation de Jacopo
The small painting Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata is one of the most celebrated pictures from the collection of Philadelphia lawyer John G.Johnson (1840-19 17), housed since 1932 in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (pi. I). Purchased in 1894 by Johnson in London, it was soon acknowledged as a masterpiece, one of the most important things of its kind to cross the Atlantic. Since then, the painting and its relationship to the strikingly similar version in the Galleria Sabauda,
