Georges de La Tour

baroque

Georges de La Tour Paintings 1593 - 1652 France, Baroque Painter

St Sebastian Attended by St Irene, c.1649

Oil on canvas, 65.75 x 51.18 inches [167 x 130 cm]

Musee du Louvre, Paris

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OIL PAINTING: St Sebastian Attended by St Irene, c.1649
There is a group of painting attributed to Georges de La Tour depicting St Sebastian and St Irene. Part of them is a horizontal composition where the model of one of the figures is a familiar La Tour type. Most of the versions are curiously incompetent, only three of them having pretensions to quality. The upright versions of the same subject (one in the Louvre and the other in Berlin) are more celebrated. The composition is monumental, as if the painting were depicting a sculptured tableau.