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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,0713.314
Description: Studies for a composition of Samson sleeping on Delilah's lap while someone cuts his hair Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, and red chalk Verso: The same subject Pen and brown ink
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1567-1606
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 264 millimetres; Width: 398 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Originally attributed by A.E. Popham to Paolo Veronese, but later moved by him to Casolani. It is comparable to a drawing by Casolani of Samson and Delilah in the Uffizi, Florence (inv. 4885S) and a drawing in the Crawford album (fol. 131 verso). A horizontal painting of the subject is in a private collection, Siena (illustrated in colour as no. 33 in '"Il piacere del colorire" Artistic Itinerary of Alessandro Casolani 1552/53-1607', 2002; M. Ciampolini, 'Pittori Senesi del seicento', Siena, 2010, I, p. 110 (with a list of related drawings). Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', London, 1935, p. 110, no. 2 (as Attributed to Paolo Veronese); H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries', New York, 1944, no. A 2057 bis (rejects Veronese attribution); I. Seligman, 'Lines of Thought', London, 2016, no. 65, p. 110.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2016 3 Sep - 6 Nov, Poole Museum, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 65 2017 1 Jan - 25 Feb, The Brynmor Jones Library Art Gallery, University of Hull, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 65 2017 12 Mar - 5 May, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 65 2017 May - Sep, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 65 2017-2018 Oct - Jan, RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 'Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now', no. 65
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Samson; Representation of: Delilah
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 14.vi.1860/part of lot 1478 as Jacopo Tintoretto 'The descent from the cross; numerous studies for the subject of Samson and Delilah, on one sheet; and others', 6 in the lot, bt Boone £1-5-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Henry George Bohn (?); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.314
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