Guercino

Literature

Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 7

Provenance

Jacopo Serra, Cardinal Legate of Ferrara, commissioned 1619–died 1623
Serra family, Ferrara, ?later Naples, 1623–?c. 1920
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bey (Maria Teresa Serra) Sursock, Palais Sursock, Beirut, acquired in Naples, from after 1920
their daughter, Yvonne Lady Cochrane, Palais Sursock, by 1969–79, sold through Leggatt Brothers, London, to Wrightsman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1979–84

Iconclass

71F377 Samson wakes up and finds his hair and strength gone; he is taken prisoner

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1984.459.2

Other works by Guercino

The head and shoulders of a lady, in profile to the left

The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga
c. 1650

Cardinal Francesco Cennini
c. 1625

The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine

Saint Mary Magdalene
c. 1620