Study for Samson and Delilah (about 1902)

Max Liebermann

black chalk, or charcoal, on buff paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Study for Samson and Delilah (about 1902)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Black chalk, Buff paper

Physical Object Description:

Samson and Delilah, study for the painting in the Städel Institute, Frankfurt (1902); nude figure of a woman (head truncated), her left hand on the head of a man burying his head in his arm, separate leg study above Black chalk, on buff paper. Signed.

Dimensions:

32.7 x 24.8 cm

Accession Number:

1934,1208.94

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1934

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) with the Prints and Drawings Fund of the Contemporary Art Society, 1933; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1934

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Biblical, Old Testament

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