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Samson pulling down the Temple

Maker

(artist)
1596-1674

Title

Samson pulling down the Temple

Date of Production

(circa) 1630 - 1640

Medium

black ink, grey wash, white bodycolour on grey-brown laid paper, hinged at the top to a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 39.1 cm
Width: 31.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2966

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




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Provenance

possibly a private collection in Freiburg im Breisgau; Gutekunst & Klipstein (Bern), November 1938, no. 36 (as 'Samson's last vengeance'); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Michiel Plomp, Jane Ten Brink Goldsmith, Paul Huys Janssen, Michiel Kersten, John Michael Montias, and Adrienne Quarles von Ufford, Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674): Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 1994
p. 312 under no. 1

Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, Leonard Bramer: brush drawings in ink, 1938; XXXIX
no. 36

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, grey ink: "34". Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite: "2966"; lower left, graphite, circled, Gutekunst number: "36"; lower centre, graphite: "Simsons letzte Rache Richter 16.". Witt mount, Outer cover, Recto: lower right corner, graphite, Lady Witt’s hand: "Leonard Bramer / Dutch 1595-1674 / Samson pulling down / the Temple. //".

Collector's mark: none.

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