Scene that is part of a series of twenty paintings dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi. It represents the baptism of Saint Francis, in which the balanced composition and the serene style should be emphasized, in which the explanation of the scene prevails above all. Viladomat also introduces small anecdotal and naturalistic details such as the detail of the architecture in the background or the dog playing with the skirts. Antoni Viladomat i Manalt is the most important painter of the first half of the 18th century in Catalonia. Its aesthetic proposal curdles in a society that recovers social, economic and cultural dynamism after the destruction of the War of Succession.
