Saint Sebastian

c. 1509

Jacopo de' Barbari

Artist, Venetian, c. 1460/1470 - 1516 or before

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22 x 11.8 cm (8 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.5.36

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.152, no. 9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966, L2770], Vienna;[1] (Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna). Richard H. Zinser; sold 22 November 1948 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1949 to NGA.
[1]This print is inventory no. 830 of the Rudolf Gutmann collection confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938. The collection was stored at the Zentraldepot in Vienna and transferred to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. The print was restituted to the Viennese dealer Christian Nebehay acting on Gutmann’s behalf in August 1947 (Restitution decision in Zl. 4716/47; export license in Zl 4694/47 dated 11 August 1947, all Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 62, repro.

1960

  • Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 67.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 35.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.147.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 157, fig.3.23, 158.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q65073838

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