St. Sebastian, Bound to a Tree

St. Sebastian, Bound to a Tree by Bartholomaeus Spranger

Medium

etching on laid paper with handwritten note

Dimensions

sheet: 20 x 9.1 cm (7 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2012.92.152

About the Artist

Bartholomaeus Spranger

Bartholomaeus Spranger was born on 21 March 1546 in Antwerp, Habsburg Netherlands, as the third son of trader Ioachim Spranger and Anna Roelandtsinne. He began his artistic training in Antwerp, apprenticing for 18 months under landscape painter Jan Mandijn, briefly with Frans Mostaert after Mandijn's death, and then spending two years studying followed by two more in the workshop of Cornelis van D...

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