Saint Irene and Companions Tending Saint Sebastian
Primary
Giovanni David
(Cabella Ligure, Alessandria, Italy, 1749–Genoa, Italy, 1790)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1770s
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 15 11/16 × 10 1/2 in. (39.8 × 26.7 cm)
Additional Dimension: 9 7/16 × 6 5/8 in. (23.9 × 16.8 cm)
Additional Dimension: 9 7/16 × 6 5/8 in. (23.9 × 16.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 2001.14
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2001.14
On View
Not on viewDavid’s etchings are numerous, but because their editions were small – intended for a small circle of Genoese nobles and collectors -- few were recorded in the 19th-century repertories, and most are very rare. Conspicuous in its debt to 17th-century Genoese artists, this idiosyncratic nocturne is known in only one other impression, in Berlin.
Exhibitions
![S. Demetrius et ses compagnons [St. Demetrius and His Companions], plate 68 from Les Images des saints [Images of Saints]](/internal/media/dispatcher/17882/thumbnail)
