The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

c. 1620

Aegidius Sadeler II

Artist, Flemish, c. 1570 - 1629

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with brown and gray wash heightened with white on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 41.4 x 31.5 cm (16 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.18.1

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 15.

1997

  • "Rudolf II and Prague: The Imperial Court and Residential City as the Cultural and Spiritual Heart of Central Europe", Prague Castle Picture Gallery, 1997, no. 237.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 160.

Bibliography

2007

  • Plomp, Michiel. "Artist Collectors in the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Jacob de Wit, a Special Case." In L'Artiste Collectionneur de Dessin II, De Giorgio Vasari à Aujourd'hui. (Rencontres internationales du Salon du Dessin, 21-22 mars 2007.) Milan, 2007: 81, 83, note 43, 212, fig. 15.

Inscriptions

PECTORA FIXIT AMOR.; by later hand, upper right in brown ink: 73; by later hand, lower left in brown ink: 2 1/2 [? ]

Wikidata ID

Q64533412

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