Bernardo Strozzi, Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, 1825-1829 (circa)

Interior of a monastery, where strozzi, a young monk with a tonsure, holds a palette and brushes and stands in front of a painting on an easel and a wooden table with cloths and utensils, and looks at his model, an elderly monk seated in a chair to left attended by two monks holding a cloth and a tray with vessels and a third reading a book; in the far left an armchair with a textile over it and a book on the arm rest and a panel lettered "fra. Bernardo / strozzi. / 1601" leaning against one side, a stained glass window in the main wall, the floor tiled, wooden beams in the ceiling; other monks present including two watching the painter, and another in a doorway to right, above which a portrait; after granet lithograph on buff chine collé. Date: 1825-1829 (circa). Dimensions: Height: 279 mm (image); Width: 351 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Bernardo Strozzi. Collection: British Museum. Bernardo Strozzi (BM 1860,0728.263)