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Large oil on canvas depicting the martyrdom of Saint Tarcisius of Rome in a dark landscape with the "eternal city" in the background.
Saint Tarcisius was a young Christian martyr who lived in the 3rd century in the Roman Empire, during the reign of Emperor Valerian,
He is also the patron saint of altar servers.
A marble sculpture of the same subject by Alexandre Fal guière, dated 1880, is in the Musée d'Orsay.
Good condition, in a Renaissance-style frame
Symbolist school circa 1880 1890
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