About the Artwork
Samson and Delilah
ca. 1555
Luca Cambiaso
1527-1585
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 1/4 inches (23.8 × 33.7 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of John S. Newberry
46.308
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamp, in black, lower right: Jonathon Richardson, Jr. (Lugt 2170)
Provenance
Santo Varni (Genoa, Italy)
Dr. J. Paul Richter (London, England). Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (London, England)
May 27-28, 1913, sold by (Fredrick Muller, Amsterdam, Netherlands) no. 277
John S. Newberry (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1946-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 36, no. 4.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh cat. Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 18.
Pigler, Anton. Barockthemen. Eine Auswahle von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin and Budapest,1965. 2nd ed., Budapest, 1974, vol. 1: p. 127.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 95-96, cat. 79 (ill.).
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Luca Cambiaso, Samson and Delilah, ca. 1555, pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry, 46.308.
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