Object details
Accession number
S16s34
Primary Creator
Italian, Northern Italy
Full title
Saint Sebastian
Creation Date
about 1600
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before about 1900.
Dimensions
44.7 x 13.5 x 8.6 cm (17 5/8 x 5 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Alabaster
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Raphael Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 11. (as "S. Sebastian in alabaster")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 107. (probably of Italian 18th century manufacture, in the manner of the early Renaissance)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 152, no. 188. (as North Italian, late 16th century or early 17th century)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), p. 136. (as around 1600)
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