Saint Sebastian
XVIII century. Red chalk on laid paper.Not on display
It is an 18th-century copy of one of the canvases in Ribera’s oeuvre, Saint Sebastian cured by the Saintly Women (1621) in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao. The painting belonged to the Marquess of Leganés and was preserved in the chapterhouse of El Escorial from 1657 to 1809, the year that Bonaparte gave it to Marshal Soult.
Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Catálogo de Dibujos. Vol. I. Dibujos españoles siglos XV-XVII, Madrid, Museo del Prado, 1972, p.119