Saint Sebastian. Oil painting by Santa Cruz.

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 99.5 x 46 cm (painted area) 111 x 46 cm (wood), 135 x 57 cm (including integral frame)

Forms pair with: Santa Cruz, painter in Castile, fl. before 1508. Saint Roch. Oil painting by Santa Cruz. (Wcat)44842i

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/34/4

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/34/3

Wellcome Collection 44843i

Eric Young, 'Early Spanish panel paintings in English collections', Apollo, August 1979, 110: 102-107, pp. 105 (reproduced p. 105, with different dimensions)

Attributed by E. Young (loc. cit.) to the Castilian painter Santa Cruz (whose forename is unknown). According to Young (p. 104), a document suggests that Santa Cruz ceased to be available for work on the high altar of Ávila cathedral by 23 March 1508, and may have died before that date

Two similar paintings of Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian, with a similar canopy on the frame, were included in the altarpiece of the chapel of Saint Cabras (Caprasius) in the church of San Miguel, Tarazona, western Aragon, where they formed the left and right extremities of the lower register of the altarpiece. The altarpiece is attributed to Prudencio and Juan de la Puente, and is documented as having been completed on 3 October 1533. The photograph of the Tarazona altarpiece in situ suggests the original context and arangement of the present pair of paintings: see Chandler Rathfon Post, A history of Spanish painting, 2nd ed., New York 1976,vol. XIII, pp. 198-9, fig. 78. Three other panels from the Tarazona altarpiece were offered for sale at Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2006, lot 135 (with the reference to Post)