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Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene (Georges de La Tour, Gemäldegalerie)

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Painting by Georges de La Tour

Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene

Artist	Georges de La Tour
Year	c. 1634–1643
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	160 cm × 129 cm (63 in × 51 in)
Location	Gemäldegalerie, 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.

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

(in Spanish) Andreas Prater, “El Barroco” en Los maestros de la pintura occidental, Taschen, 2005, pág. 242, ISBN 3-8228-4744-5
"Die Auffindung des Heiligen Sebastian". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-07.

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. ISBN 0-82327-744-5; ISBN 9780823277445. Pp. 11, 94-103, plate 24, 25.

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Georges de La Tour

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The Fortune Teller (1630)
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The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds (c. 1638)
Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene (c. 1634–1643, Gemäldegalerie)
Magdalene at a Mirror (c. 1635–1640)
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Adoration of the Shepherds (1644)
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Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene (1649, Louvre)
The Denial of Saint Peter (1650)
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