One other thing, the picture was found in an old frame, behind another picture. It’s decades old at least.
Interesting picture. For some reason I’m picking up a bit of an “Eastern” vibe, for want of a better word. It does appear to be a religious depiction…maybe a scene from one of the Eastern Orthodox faiths? Or, just possibly something from Hindu tradition?
Was this found by you or someone you know, or is it something you read about somewhere, or what?
Is it an actual painting/drawing, or is it a print?
If you have access to it, are there any markings on the back? signatures on the front?
What picture was it behind? Where was the frame? Was this in a church, an old attic, where?
I notice that on the right, about a third if the way down, on what appears to be a hillside, there are some markings that may or may not be random. Are they clearer in the original? Are they perhaps a signature or date?
It was a home made frame and it came out of an old house. It was behind a picture of an eagle. I don’t know anything else about it.
Indeed.
hold on. This was drawn on the back
http://i.imgur.com/S4kKl.jpg
You haven’t seen the actual picture yourself?
Interesting.
I have not. It is out of state.
JOKE ALERT, No disrespect to the OP intended!
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The first respiratory therapist checking to see if that guy’s moving any air.
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Not that funny, I know, but it might be if you are (or were, in my case) an RT!
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And the guy on the right is thinking tracheotomy.
It looks like an illustration out of a 1950’s Sunday school book, to me. The central figure seems to be the man listening to the chest (physician?) rather than the dying figure. The sword is suggestive but there’s no blood. The friar (novice?) on the right seems to be considering taking up the sword.
Could be just an illustration of "[FONT=TimesNewRoman][SIZE=2]All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”[/SIZE][/FONT]
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19th century. Time depicted is 19th century.
I don’t even see a tonsure. Boots, sword do not a saint make (at least in recent centuries).
Perhaps a local miracle, where the loser swordsman rises improbably to health, ie the man kneeling is actually checking the swordsman’s life. The tall man clearly is a close witness and arbitrator, unlike the two women in the back.
You mean the one zeno posted of what was on the back? It’s a bunch of random partial rough sketches like an artist practicing. I think they’re pencil or charcoal or something similar. None of them bear any real resemblance to anything in the actual picture. One appears to be a woman (possibly a queen?) on a throne.
They don’t appear to me to be as skilled as the actual picture, but they could be idle doodles.
I agree with Colibri that they’re meant to be Dominicians. That one of them is holding a rosary further strengthens that assumption.
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I agree. For example, in Campin’s Merode Altarpiece, the Annunciation to Mary has Mary as a medieval Dutch girl. Saint Joseph appears to be at work in Amsterdam or some other medieval European city.
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Well yes, but the style is nineteenth century or later, when the opposite was true and when (however overconfidently) most artists of historical subjects prided themselves on their accuracy.
One possible subject could be St Dominic’s resurrection of Napoleone Orsini. Which is an extremely rare subject in art. Especially as this version seems to show the discovery of the body rather than the miracle of the resurrection. However, compare Lorenzo Lotto’s much earlier painting on the subject.
Looks to me like a litho plate from a book, late 19th/early 20th c at a wild guess. So the scene being shown could be just about anything, fact, fable or fiction.
APB’s theory does sound very plausable though.
FWIW:
The figures in the background are not obviously women. They too seem to be monks/friars.
The stopping figure appears to be holding a bottle, which he is temporarily stopping with a cloth. This suggests that he has just administered medicine.
The sword is broken. I’ve seen this used in a few illustrations to indicate someone who has literally thrown themselves on their own sword. So maybe a suicide?
You can do that ?
Ahem. King Saul would not have used that type of sword. Neither would the priest praying over him have used a rosary to do so.
I probably should have pointed out how artists often use anachronistic contemporary fashions for historical subjects.