Harvard Art Museums > 1965.424: Samson and the Philistine (recto and verso) Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Samson and the Philistine (recto and verso) (Jacopo Tintoretto) , 1965.424,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/296419. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1965.424 People Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1519 - 1594 Venice, Italy) Title Samson and the Philistine (recto and verso) Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 16th century Places Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice Culture Italian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/296419 Physical Descriptions Medium Black chalk and white gouache on blue antique laid paper (recto and verso) Dimensions 38.5 × 23.2 cm (15 3/16 × 9 1/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: l.r., Brown ink: Tintoretto [inscribed in a 17th century hand--Ridolfi's] inscription: l.r., Black ink, Italian: Dietro e questo vi e lo stesso gruppo inscription: Verso, l.r., Brown ink: Tintoretto [crossed out in black chalk] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Paul J. Sachs, 1932, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs Accession Year 1965 Object Number 1965.424 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln, Zeichnungen des Giacomo Tintoretto (Berlin, Germany, 1922), p. 25 Luitpold Dussler, "Two Unpublished Drawings by Giacomo Tintoretto", The Burlington Magazine (1927), vol.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. 186, pp. 99-100; vol. 2, repr. fig. 98 (recto) William H. Gerdts and Elaine Evans Gerdts, Old Master Drawings, exh. cat., The Newark Museum (Newark, 1960), cat. no. 26, n.p., repr. 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. Richard F. Howard, Italian Drawings, Modern Paintings and Treasures from the Vatican: 19th Birmingham Festival of Arts, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1969), cat. no. 13, 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), cat. no. 106, pp. 131-132, and pp. 11, 26, 45, and 106, repr. recto and verso, William Bradford and Helen Braham, Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, exh. cat., University of London (London, England, 1991), under no. 69, p. 146 Lorenz Eitner and Betsy G. Fryberger, Stanford University Museum of Art: The Drawing Collection, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA, 1993), under no. 19, note 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 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 Everett Fahy, Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe, Alberto Bruschi (Florence, Italy, 2000), cat. no. 576, p. 57, and pp. 351 and 413, repr. (verso) p. 308, fig. 576 and... 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 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), p. 113 note 34 Exhibition History Michelangelo's "Figura Serpentina", Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 01/07/1957 - 02/08/1957 Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark, 03/17/1960 - 05/22/1960 Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1962 - 05/25/1962 Italian Old Master Drawings, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 03/14/1969 - 04/01/1969 The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 03/06/1979 - 04/22/1979 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
