Saint Sebastian
Saint Sebastian
- Artist
- Liberale da Verona
- Artist Dates
- c. 1445-c. 1526
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Sebastian
- Date
- c. 1525
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 67.3 x 48.3 cm (26-1/2 x 19 in)
- K Number
- K1267
- Repository
- Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
- Accession Number
- 1979.0656P
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 13 March 1941; gift to George Peabody College for Teachers, now Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, as Giovanni Battista Bertucci, in 1961, no. 1979.0656P
Catalogue Entry
Liberale da Verona
Saint Sebastian
K1267
Nashville, Tenn., George Peabody College for Teachers, Study Collection (A-61-10-11), since 1961.(1) Wood. 26 1/2 x 19 in. (67.3 x 48.3 cm.). Abraded throughout. The model for K1267 seems to have been Liberale's full-length St. Sebastian in the Brera Gallery, Milan, which, in turn, derives from Antonio Rizzo's statue of Adam for the courtyard of the Ducal Palace, Venice. Both the Brera St. Sebastian and Liberale's slightly different version in the Berlin Gallery are more precise in modeling than K1267: compare, for example, the crisp leaves in the Berlin picture with the summarily drawn foliage in K1267. A more subtle demonstration of Liberale's superiority is offered by the half-length St. John the Evangelist in the Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum: the pose of the head parallels almost exactly that of K1267 but the expression is inspired and the modeling firm. K1267 may date in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1941.
References
(1) Peabody acquisitions report, 1961, p. 15, as Liberale da Verona, following the attribution with which K1267 was acquired by the Kress Foundation.