New! Saint Elizabeth Working for the Poor – Marianne Stokes – Beautiful Catholic Art

This serene picture of St. Elizabeth of Hungary shows her reverently sewing clothes for the poor. Her peace and quiet piety are depicted, and the dove flying out the window shows how her faith, labor, and suffering are being transformed into heavenly peace and glory. Her own soul left this life in 1231, at the age of 24, soon after this scene.

Prior to that, the former queen had been forced from the castle after the death of her husband in 1227 in the Crusades because the royal court resented her giving so much food to the poor. She then joined the Third Order of St. Francis, a lay order committed to poverty and service.

As the daughter of the king, she could have spent her life in leisure and amusement. When her husband’s allies came back from the Crusades, they installed her son on the throne, who was the rightful heir, and took her dowry back from the usurper. She used it to set up a hospital. Elizabeth was so well known for her holiness that she canonized by Pope Gregory IX just four years later. (source: Franciscan Media)

Victorian painter, Marianne Stokes, was one of the most prominent painters of her time. She was also one of the most religious. Her paintings are serene and beautiful, which made her style perfect for painting Elizabeth, whose temperament was also serene and beautiful. Not as well known today, perhaps because of her constant religious subject matter, or the fact that many of her paintings have ended up in private collections instead of museums, she nonetheless had one of her Madonna and Child paintings used by the U.S. Post Office for a Christmas stamp in 2005. This picture was painted in 1920. Oil on canvas. 59.8 x 40.4 cm. This one’s in a museum, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, who purchased it when it was painted. (source: liturgicalyearinart.substack.com)

** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.

There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper.

We make Archival Quality fine art prints:

– Acid-free paper

– Archival pigments

– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less.

– Above story of the art

– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.

– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.

Thanks for your interest!

+JMJ+

Sue & John

Lincoln, Nebraska

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”

~ St. Pope John Paul II

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