1932.285: Samson and the Philistine (recto and verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.285

People

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

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

• watermark: Similar to Briquet 11905, but not surmounted by a trefoil (Mongan-Sachs W. 13)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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• Luitpold Dussler, "Two Unpublished Drawings by Giacomo Tintoretto", The Burlington Magazine (1927), vol.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

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