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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1976.87
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Saint Sebastian
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
17th century
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227468

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on cradled panel
Dimensions
24.8 x 26.3 cm (9 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.)
framed: 39 x 41 x 7 cm (15 3/8 x 16 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of panel, paper, printed: [round, perforated label-- export label indicating Basel] I / 26
  • label: back of frame, black ink, typewritten: 9 / Elsheimer [illeg.]
  • label: back of frame, graphite, handwritten: S. Elsheimer
  • label: inside lip of frame, black ink, printed: 448
  • inscription: on back of frame, handwritten in red:: 27

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Reverend Gerald F. Gilmore
Accession Year
1976
Object Number
1976.87
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

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