Saint Sebastian, Martyr
Two cloaked figures tend to the wounds of Saint Sebastian, a Roman soldier shot with arrows as punishment for his Christian beliefs. The artist's dark palette and uncompromising realism were inspired by seventeenth-century Spanish art, examples of which he could have seen at the Musée du Louvre. This work is a reduced version of a painting exhibited in Paris in 1865 and subsequently purchased by the French government.
Credit: Gift of Daniel Katz Gallery, London, 2011
c. 1865
Oil on canvas
18.2 x 21.6in
2011.7
Image and text: The Clark Art Institute, 2024
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The Clark
Permanent collection