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Charles Mellin, 1597 Nancy – 1649 Rom, Werkstatt des
SAINT SEBASTIAN Oil on canvas. Doubled. 94 x 77 cm. In gilded profile frame. The half-length portrait of a young man with a purple velum looking slightly to the left past the viewer against an indeterminate, darkened background and with an arrow in his hand, which attributively identifies him as Saint Sebastian. Although Mellin was born in Lorraine, he spent the largest and most important part of his life working in Italy, where he executed important commissions for the Palazzo Muti and several churches. Literature: Cf. exhibition catalog, Charles Mellin, un Lorrain entre Rome et Naples: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen September 21 - December 31, 2007 (1391492) (13). Charles Mellin, 1597 Nancy- 1649 Rome, workshop of SAINT SEBASTIAN Oil on canvas. Relined. 94 x 77 cm.
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Charles Mellin, 1597 Nancy – 1649 Rom, Werkstatt des
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