Camille Corot, 1851 - St. Sebastian Succoured by Holy Women - fine art print

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Oil on canvas, H: 101 1/2 x W: 66 1/8 in. (257.81 x 168 cm)

Description: Two Christian women, Irene and a companion, extract arrows from Sebastian, who has been left for dead by the Roman emperor Diocletian's archers. Sebastian miraculously recovered, only to be clubbed to death later. In Corot's painting, Sebastian's approaching sainthood and martyrdom is symbolized by putti, or cherubs, who carry a laurel wreath and a palm frond. As one critic wrote in 1871, "At the moment when St. Sebastian suffers and seems to die, the forest shares in his agony and mourns his death, while at the same time lifting him up to the heavenly spaces of a melancholic sky." Evidence of Corot's reworking of this ambitious canvas over the course of more than 20 years is visible to the naked eye. According to the artist's biographer and close friend, Alfred Robaut, Corot reworked the painting after it was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1853 and then once again in preparation for the Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) of 1867. In 1871, he donated the painting to a lottery to raise funds for the orphans of the Franco-Prussian War. The artist finally filled in the upper corners of the composition in 1873.

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The modern art work of art was painted by Camille Corot. It is in the the Walters Art Museum's digital art collection, which is a museum that holds collections established during the mid-19th century by William Thompson Walters and Henry Walters. We are glad to state that this masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is being supplied with courtesy of Walters Art Museum.Creditline of the artwork: . Besides this, the alignment is portrait with an image ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The painter Camille Corot was an artist, whose style can be classified as Realism. The Realist painter lived for 79 years - born in 1796 and died in the year 1875.

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