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Keywords: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - St Sebastian Succoured by Holy Women - Walters 37192.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18178424 Creator Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Saint Sébastien secouru par les Saintes Femmes 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 between 1851 1873 Oil on canvas cm 257 81 168 ; Framed cm 282 58 193 04 accession number 37 192 26866 Loterie au profit des Orphelins des victims de la guerre 1871 by gift donation by the artist Alfred Robaut and Durand-Ruel 1871 by purchase Samuel Barlow Stakehill Lancashire 1825-1893 mode of acquisition unknown William T Walters Baltimore August 11 1883 by purchase Tom Wallis London as agent see Lucas diaries Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1883 Signature In yellowish brown on bottom left COROT The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery New York New York 1889-1890 Corot Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; National Gallery of Canada Ottawa 1996-1997 place of origin Bologna Italy <gallery> File Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Saint Sébastien secouru par les saintes femmes 1874 jpg Painted 1874 </gallery> Walters Art Museum license 2D History paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1851-1873 Saint Sebastian Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review French paintings in the Walters Art Museum holy women
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