Saint Sebastian (detail), Guido Reni, Bourgeois bequest 1811

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The Collection

Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world's most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. The collection is also one of the oldest in Great Britain.

The Collection

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Guido Reni's Saint Sebastian

Xavier Salomon looks at Guido Reni's Saint Sebastian a deeply religious subject but also a sensually charged image. it was the focal point of Sir John Soane's Gallery at Dulwich for most of the nineteenth-century and is one of the collection's best-known works.

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