Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene (Georges de La Tour, Gemäldegalerie) explained
| Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene |
| Artist: | Georges de La Tour |
| Year: | c. 1634–1643 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 160 |
| Width Metric: | 129 |
| Museum: | Gemäldegalerie |
| City: | Berlin |
Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene is a c. 1634–1643 oil-on-canvas painting of Saint Sebastian having his wounds tended by Saint Irene, which suddenly became a popular subject in the 1620s. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.[1] [2]
It was previously thought to be the original composition of the subject by Georges de La Tour, but that is now thought to be the version of the work in the Louvre, with the Berlin work being a copy by his son Etienne with some retouching by Georges.
References
- Andreas Prater, “El Barroco” en Los maestros de la pintura occidental, Taschen, 2005, pág. 242,
- Web site: Die Auffindung des Heiligen Sebastian . 2024-05-07 . Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) . de.
Further reading
- Conisbee, Philip. “An Introduction to the Life and Art of Georges de La Tour,” in Philip Conisbee (ed.), Georges de La Tour and His World, exhibition catalogue Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum 1996, pp.13-147.
- Judovitz, Dalia. Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible, New York, Fordham University Press, 2018. ; . Pp. 11, 94-103, plate 24, 25.
