Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian, 1591-1666
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About the Artwork

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

ca. 1620

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

1591-1666

Italian

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 39 9/16 × 54 inches (100.5 × 137.2 cm) Framed: 57 1/2 × 70 1/2 × 4 1/8 inches (146.1 × 179.1 × 10.5 cm)

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European Painting

City of Detroit Purchase

26.108

Public Domain

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(Baron Hadeln, Florence, Italy);
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Heil, W. "A Painting by Guercino." Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 7 (April 1927): pp. 77-78, (repr.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 90, (repr.) [as Guercino].

Scheyer, E. Baroque Painting. Detroit, 1937, pp. 8-9, (fig. 2) [DIA gallery guide].

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 56, no. 90.

Religious Painting 15th - 19th Century. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1956, no. 10.

Grigaut, Paul L., ed. Treasures from the DIA. Detroit, 1960, p. 90, (repr.) [not in 1966 ed.].

Myers, B. S., ed. Encyclopedia Of Painting. New York, 1970, p. 221, (repr.).

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 98.

Selected Works from the DIA. Detroit, 1979, p. 145, no. 118, (repr.).

Salerno, L. I Dipinti del Guercino. Rome, 1988, p. 143, cat. 64 [presented as repr. of lost original by Guercino, c. 1619-20].

Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 112-113, cat. no. 35 [entry by W. Bissell].

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97.

Turner, Nicholas. The Paintings of Guercino: A revised and Expanded Catalogue raisonné. Rome, 2017, pp. 336–337, no. 80.II (ill.).

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workshop of Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Christ and the Woman of Samaria, ca. 1620, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.108.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Christ and the Woman of Samaria