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The Martyrdom of the Seven Sons of Saint Felicity
Also titled Het martelaarschap van de zeven broers, de zonen van de heilige Felicitas
Francesco Trevisani (Capodistria, 1656–1746)
1709
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 75 cm x width 62.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of H.B. van der Ven, The Hague and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
The most prominent cardinal in Rome ordered this painting as a gift for a French minister and his wife, whose name, Catherine Félicité, inspired the choice of subject. The Christian martyr Saint Felicity – here in a yellow gown – was forced to witness the martyrdom of her seven sons before herself being beheaded. Trevisani included two self-portraits: as the standing man at left, and as the man looking out at us from behind the statue at right.
