WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art welcomes the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College’s Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (1625) by Hendrick ter Brugghen. The painting will be the focal point of Larger Than Life: Ter Brugghen’s Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene, a focus installation celebrating two of Ter Brugghen’s most luminous and lyrical compositions, on view from January 21 through May 15, 2011. It comes to the Gallery after being on view at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, from September 11, 2010 to January 16, 2011. Hailed as Ter Brugghen’s masterwork, Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene will grace the walls of the West Building’s Dutch and Flemish galleries (Main Floor, Gallery 44), along with the Gallery’s magnificent Bagpipe Player (1624), also by Ter Brugghen. Although these paintings belong to different genres, they reveal the sure fluidity of brush, exquisite color harmonies, and sophisticated co