Samson and Delilah (Guercino)

Samson and Delilah

Artist	Guercino
Year	1654
Medium	oil painting on canvas
Movement	Classicism History painting
Subject	Samson and Delilah
Dimensions	176 cm × 223 cm (69 in × 88 in)^[1]
Location	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession	1893

Samson and Delilah is a 1654 painting by the Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino). It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 316.^[2]

This work (and its pendant Lot and his Daughters, today in the Louvre), was painted in 1654 for Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, and delivered in 1657. It was sold between 1715 and 1720 and later belonged to John Charles Robinson. Robinson presented it to the Strasbourg museum in 1893, as gesture of friendship towards its director, Wilhelm von Bode, who had purchased several items from his collection.^[1] [The accession date was given as 1896 in previous publications.]^[2]

Contrary to the Biblical narrative in the Book of Judges, but according to the retelling by Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews, Delilah is shown as cutting Samson's hair herself (in the Bible, a man is summoned to do this task). The severity of the composition, the muted colors, and Delilah's sculptural profile, are characteristic of Guercino's late, classical manner. The theme of the painting and of its pendant, Lot and his daughters, does furthermore constitute a warning against the dangers of drunkenness.^[2]

A preparatory drawing (current location unknown) depicts Delilah at half-length, with a more girlish expression and a less athletic build.^[1]^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Roy, Alain (June 2017). De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. pp. 184–185. ISBN 978-2-35125-151-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 180–181. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.
^ "Giovanni Francesco Barbieri dit il GUERCINO (1591-1666), attribué à. "Dalila"". Ivoire France. Retrieved 18 July 2020.

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Une visite, un thème - Peinture du XVIIème siècle - 5 genres, p. 2. Short presentation on the museum's website.

Guercino

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Saint Joseph's Dream (c. 1600–1650)
Moonlit Landscape (c. 1616)
Country Concert (c. 1617)
Et in Arcadia ego (c. 1618–1622)
The Raising of Lazarus (1619)
Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (1620)
Saint Matthew and the Angel (1621–1622)
Assumption (c. 1623)
The Burial of St. Petronilla (c. 1623)
The Death of Dido (1631)
Venus, Cupid and Mars (1633)
Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son (1635)
Allegory of Painting and Sculpture (1637)
Saint Jerome (c. 1640–1650)
The Suicide of Cato (1641)
Hersilia Separating Romulus and Tatius (1645)
Annunciation (1646)
Circumcision of Christ (1646)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (1647)
The Persian Sibyl (1647)
The Dying Cleopatra (c. 1648)
Susannah and the Elders (1650)
The Libyan Sibyl (1651)
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine (1653)
Samson and Delilah (1654)
Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael (1657)

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