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Samson slaying the Philistines 1608
Pen and ink with brown wash, over black chalk | 37.0 x 20.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903410
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Samson slaying the Philistines 1608
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Samson slaying the Philistines 1608
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A drawing of a youthful Samson, raising the ass's jawbone to strike at a pile of warriors cowering at his feet. The drawing is a study for one of the the frescoes on the Feats of Samson in the room now known as the Sala delle Nozze Aldobrandini in the Vatican, painted in 1608 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese as the anteroom to his apartments.
Another study for the scheme is at RCIN 903288. See V. Birke, Guido Reni. Zeichnungen, Vienna 1981, no. 20; S. Pepper, Guido Reni, 1984, under no. 29.Provenance
Listed in the posthumous inventory of Silvestro Bonfiglioli, Bologna, 1696, 'Un Dissegno Istoria di Sansone che ammazza i Filistei mano di Guido in Cornice. e Cassetta dorata con Vetro'. Presumably then in the collections of Zaccaria Sagredo and Consul Joseph Smith in Venice, and acquired by George III in 1762. Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 80, ‘Guido &c. Tom. 5’, 'A first study for his Sampson destroying the Philistines. Painted at Bologna in the Palazzo Publico' [mistakenly identifying the drawing as a study for Reni's painting now in the Pinacoteca].
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Pen and ink with brown wash, over black chalk
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37.0 x 20.1 cm (sheet of paper)
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