St. Flavian; St. Victoria; St. Servulus; St. Tharsilla

Jacques Callot

National Gallery of Art

This is a drawing with four vignettes depicting religious scenes. Each vignette is contained within an oval shape, showing different scenes related to martyrdom or divine visions. 1. The top left illustration shows a soldier holding a weapon against someone tied to a post under a sky with sparse clouds and a rocky formation in the background. 2. The top right vignette portrays a figure reclining under a beam of light coming through the clouds with a small heavenly figure in the sky. There's a simple architectural structure in the surroundings. 3. The bottom left image presents a heavenly scene in the clouds above a reclining person observed by another figure sitting nearby. A building is depicted in the earthly scene below. 4. The bottom right illustrates a bed-ridden person under a depiction of saints or holy figures with halos among clouds, invoking a sense of a divine or spiritual occurrence. The drawings use lines and shading to create depth and texture, emphasizing the central figures and their interactions. Text on the images indicates specific saints and dates, providing contextual references.