About the Artwork
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
ca. 1620
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
1591-1666
Italian
Unknown
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)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
26.108
Public Domain
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Provenance
(Baron Hadeln, Florence, Italy);1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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