- Museum number
- 1946,0713.314
- Description
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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
- Production date
- 1567-1606
- Dimensions
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Height: 264 millimetres
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Width: 398 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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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
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.314
