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| Title | Young Warrior Asleep in a Wooded Landscape | |
| Alternative Title | The Young Warrior; The Sleeping Warrior | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Attributed to after Saraceni, Carlo (Italian painter, ca. 1579-1620) Previously attributed to Lisse, Dirck van der (Dutch painter, active from ca. 1635, died 1669) and studio |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1598 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1606 | |
| Description | The Young warrior is based on the St Sebastian (oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm, Prague Castle) by the Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni (c. 1579-1620). In 1598 Saraceni moved to Rome and painted small religious and secular scenes set in forest landscapes, using an enamel like technique on copper, much influenced by Adam Elsheimer. In 1607 he became a member of the St Luke Academy and his work started to incorporate the influence of Caravaggio, making him one of the first Carravaggisti. Although the small Glasgow painting is considered a copy after the Prague version some interesting observations can be made. The Prague painting shows the young man pierced by an arrow. The copyist thus drastically changed the iconography from a religious into a secular scene. Stylistically, the small copper panel would fit well within Saraceni's early works whereas the St Sebastian seems a mature work showing a more Carravagesque approach. Further research may allow placing the small panel within Saraceni's work or within his circle. | |
| Current Accession Number | 118 | |
| Subject | figure (warrior); landscape | |
| Measurements | 12.7 x 18.4 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on metal (copper) | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Primitives to Picasso: An Exhibition from Municipal and University Collections in Great Britain, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1962, cat. no. 110, as by Manner of Adam Elsheimer. | |
| Publications | Catalogue (Illustrated) of the Old Masters Dutch, Flemish, Italian 1500-1700, Introduction by T.C.F. Bratchie, Corporation of Glasgow, Art Galleries and Museums, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1922, p. 69 as by Dirk van der Lisse, ? 1669, Dutch, as The Sleeping Warrior; Catalogue Descriptive and Historical of the Pictures in the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, Introduction by James Eggleton, Glasgow, 1935, p. 181, as by Dirk van der Lisse, ? 1669, Dutch, as The Sleeping Warrior; Catalogue Dutch and Flemish, Netherlandish and German Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Volume one Text, introduction by Hamish Miles, Glasgow Art Gallery and Musems, Glasgow, 1961, p. 49, as style of Adam Elsheimer, 1578-1610, German, as A sleeping warrior in a wooded landscape; Nicholson, B. ed., Primitives to Picasso: An exhibition from the Municipal and University Collections in Great Britain, London, 1962, p. 110; Catalogue of Italian Paintings with which is included a small group of Spanish Pictures, Illustrations, Introduction by George Buchanan, Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1970, p. 91, repr, b/w; | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Dr Erma Hermens | |