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Title:
Saint George and a Female Saint
Object name(s):
Picture; Italian
Brief description:
Saint George, with the remains of the dragon he has slain beside him, and an unidentified female saint kneel with their hands on their hearts in reverence. This painting is a fragment of a larger work, probably a single-panel altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with saints. The Virgin and Child would originally have been to the left, with Saint George and the female saint facing towards them. There was probably another pair of saints on the other side of the Virgin and Child. We do not know the locations of the other missing parts of the painting, which was originally painted on a wooden panel -- the National Gallery's fragment has since been transferred to canvas.A complete work of this type by Palma Vecchio is in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. However, the damage to the National Gallery picture and heavy repainting means that it is difficult to say for certain who it is by.
Collection:
National Gallery
Accession date:
1916-01-01
Date - earliest / single:
1916
Date - latest:
1916
Acquisition source:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Associated concept:
religious imagery
Associated concept:
soldiers
Associated concept:
armour
Associated concept:
saints (unidentified)
Associated concept:
dragon
Credit line:
Layard Bequest, 1916
Current location:
Not on display
Current reproduction location:
2/924/824/88/mid_N-3079-00-000017.jpg
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
102.90
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
73.00
Form:
None
Material:
oil, originally on wood, transferred to canvas
Material:
oil
Material:
canvas
Material:
wood
Object name:
Picture; Italian (Venetian)
Object production date:
about 1510-20
Date - earliest / single:
1510
Date - latest:
1520
Object production date:
Date - period:
1500-24
Object production person:
Italian, North
Object production person:
Palma Vecchio
Person's birth date:
1480
Person's death date:
1528
Object production place:
Italy
Object production place:
Venice
Other number:
NG3079
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0G8B-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
NG3079
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
000-04UM-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
ng33079
Other number type:
sort number
Owner:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Responsible department/section:
Main Collection
Right note:
To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Style:
high Renaissance
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools
Reference details:
188-9
Reference note:
Latest catalogue
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Venetian School
Reference details:
62-3
Reference note:
Previous catalogues
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
Reference details:
516
Reference note:
Key bibliography
Reference type:
reference

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8d515bd5-508a-389d-9b8e-b49aa9b653e3

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8d515bd5-508a-389d-9b8e-b49aa9b653e3, National Gallery, CC BY

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