Saint Sebastian, ca. 1504 – 1507

Title

Saint Sebastian

Draughtsman

• Albrecht Dürer workshop
• Hans Baldung Grien ?

Contractor, employer

• Frederick III (Elector of Saxony)
• John (Elector of Saxony) ?

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• white heightening
• primary coat

Geographic Reference

• Franconian
• Upper Rhine

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• presentation design
• autonomous drawing?

Captions Added Later

Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Work Catalogues

• Strauss II.878.1505/20
• Panofsky 1948.II.61.481
• Winkler II.51.322

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• depiction of a saint

Persons Shown

• Sebastian (saint)

Primary

• 11H(SEBASTIAN)62 St. Sebastian, tied to a tree or a pillar, is pierced by arrows

Secondary

• 31EE23461(+5) violent death by arrow(s) - EE - death not certain; wounded person (+ death by martyrdom)
• 45C15(ARROW) archer's weapons: arrow
• 44G3129 (person) in fetters, not imprisoned
• 25G3(+21) trees (+ stem, trunk)

Historic Attribution

• Albrecht Dürer draughtsman