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Saint Sebastian, Martyr

Théodule Ribot

French, 1823–1891

Saint Sebastian, Martyr

c. 1865

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.

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 18 1/4 × 21 5/8 in. (46.4 × 54.9 cm) Frame: 25 15/16 × 29 1/16 × 1 7/8 in. (65.9 × 73.8 × 4.8 cm)
Object Number 2011.7
Acquisition Gift of Daniel Katz Gallery, London, 2011
Status On View

Image Caption

Théodule Ribot, Saint Sebastian, Martyr, c. 1865, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of Daniel Katz Gallery, London, 2011.7

Provenance

Sale, Brissonneau, Daguerre (Drouot), Paris, June 15, 2005, lot 20 (bought in); Jaffard collection, Paris; Etienne Breton, Paris, 2011; from whom acquired by Daniel Katz, London.

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