Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (Q72753392)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
religious art (Q2864737)
artist:
Georges de La Tour (Q203371)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
main subject:
Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene (Q21251731)
depicts:
Saint Sebastian (Q183332)
Irene of Rome (Q1672591)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
nAEVyl-32ILWHw
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/saint-sebastian-tended-irene
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: Saint Sebastian––a Roman soldier who suffered martyrdom around A.D. 300––was nursed by the pious Irene, who, upon discovering him still alive, tenderly removed the arrows that pierced his body. He was a protector against the epidemics that plagued the artist’s native Lorraine, and La Tour’s various versions of this scene were by far the most copied of his works in the seventeenth century. In 1751 a local historian made reference to one that La Tour presented to Duke Charles IV of Lorraine and another that he presented to King Louis XIII of France. The king admired his version so much that he “had all the other paintings removed from his room in order to leave only this one.”
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