1932.285: Samson and the Philistine (recto and verso)
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1932.285
- People
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Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1519 - 1594 Venice, Italy)
- Title
- Samson and the Philistine (recto and verso)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1560 - 1570
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/298535
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk and white gouache on blue antique laid paper
- Dimensions
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45 × 27.2 cm (17 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
framed: 38.7 × 57.8 cm (15 1/4 × 22 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: Similar to Briquet 11905, but not surmounted by a trefoil (Mongan-Sachs W. 13)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
- Accession Year
- 1932
- Object Number
- 1932.285
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln, Zeichnungen des Giacomo Tintoretto (Berlin, Germany, 1922), p. 25
- Luitpold Dussler, "Two Unpublished Drawings by Giacomo Tintoretto", The Burlington Magazine (1927), vol. LI, p. 33
- Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 185, p. 99; vol. 2, repr. fig. 97 (recto)
- James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), p. 132
- Yvonne Hackenbroch, "Samson and the Philistines by Pierino da Vinci", The Connoisseur (1958), vol. CXLII, pp. 198-201, repr. recto, fig. 4
- Wallace J. Tomasini, Drawing and the Human Figure 1400-1964, exh. cat., University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA, 1964), under cat. no. 33, n.p.
- Edward J. Olszewski, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, OH and Bloomington, IN, 1981), p. 133
- Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 38, repr. (recto) fig. 31
- William Bradford and Helen Braham, Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, exh. cat., University of London (London, England, 1991), under no. 69 and fn. 5
- Lorenz Eitner and Betsy G. Fryberger, Stanford University Museum of Art: The Drawing Collection, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA, 1993), under no. 19, fn. 5
- An Exhibition of Old Master Drawings and European Works of Art, auct. cat., Trinity Fine Art Ltd. (Florence, Italy, 1995), under cat. no. 4, p. 14
- Eike D. Schmidt, "Die überlieferung von Michelangelos verlorenem Samson-Modell", Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz (1996), vol. XL, repr. pl. 22
- Jean-Francois Méjanès, The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., ed. Philip Rylands, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, 1999), p. 82
- Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella I")
- Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, NY, January 24, 2001), under cat. no. 14, p. 30, and in the Erratum supplement under cat. no. 14, p. 2
- Miguel Falomir, ed., Tintoretto, exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, 2007), p. 405
- Linda Wolk-Simon and Dr. Carmen Bambach, An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection: Correggio to Tiepolo, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, 2010), p. 76
- John Marciari, Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2018), cat. no. 36, pp. 103, 106, fig. 75 (recto); fig. 76 (verso)
Exhibition History
- Michelangelo's "Figura Serpentina", Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 01/07/1957 - 02/08/1957
- Titian, Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 02/12/1960 - 03/13/1960
- Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1962 - 05/25/1962
- HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
- HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 - 11/05/2011
- Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, 10/12/2018 - 01/06/2019; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/24/2019 - 06/09/2019
Verification Level
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