Saint Sebastian with an arrow in his right hand and the martyr's palm in his left

Details

Circle of Andrea d'Angiolo, called Andrea del Sarto (Florence 1486-1530)
Saint Sebastian with an arrow in his right hand and the martyr's palm in his left
oil on panel
34 x 25 in. (86.4 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

with E. Slater, Old Bond Street; Christie's, London, 18 March 1955, lot 76 (50 gns. to Dent).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 April 1984, lot 2.

Literature

S. Freedberg, Andrea del Sarto, II, Cambridge, Mass., 1963 p.194.
J. Shearman, Andrea del Sarto, II, Oxford, 1965, p.286.

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Lot Essay

The present work is one of many copies after the lost 'Saint Sebastian' by del Sarto, of which, on the basis of a photograph, Professor Freedberg, in a letter of 1981, wrote that it is 'at least tentatively necessary to conclude that this is an excellent stuido painting, I think, most likely produced during the last years of Sarto's life or very shortly afterwards by an assistant or close follower'.

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