St. Sebastian, Bound to a Tree
Bartholomaeus Spranger
c. 1589
Medium
etching on laid paper with handwritten note
Dimensions
sheet: 20 x 9.1 cm (7 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Classification
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...