Saint Sebastian by Gerolamo Giovenone (ca. 1525)

Brown wash drawing of a nude male saint tied to a leafless tree in a rocky landscape with a distant town.

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The drawing combines brown wash with white highlights over a tinted paper ground, set against a rocky landscape with a distant town.

Date

ca. 1525

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash, white gouache, over some black chalk on light brown paper; the figure and parts of the tree are drawn on the basis of a dotted black-chalk underdrawing (spolvero marks).

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

License

CC0

Themes

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