St Sebastian Attended by St Irene and Her Maid
by BABUREN, Dirck van, Oil on canvas, 169 x 128 cm
This painting exhibits Caravaggesque tendencies: the artist creates the scene with a strong and artificial chiaroscuro which lights up the body of St Sebastian and the upper bodies of St Irene and her maid, leaving the rest of the pictorial plane in shadow. Only in the foreground can we make out the slain saint’s armour.