Lot Essay
For a note on the artist, please see lot 119.
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Samson and Delilah
Details
Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889)
Samson and Delilah
signed and dated 'ALEX. CABANEL. 1878' (upper left)
oil on canvas
36½ x 25½ in. (92.7 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1878.
Samson and Delilah
signed and dated 'ALEX. CABANEL. 1878' (upper left)
oil on canvas
36½ x 25½ in. (92.7 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1878.
Provenance
William Astor, New York.
Anonymous sale; American Art Association, New York, 21 April 1926, lot 412.
J. H. Cooper (bought from the above sale).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 1987, lot 75.
Anonymous sale; American Art Association, New York, 21 April 1926, lot 412.
J. H. Cooper (bought from the above sale).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 1987, lot 75.
Literature
Edward Strahan, ed., The Art Treasures of America being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America, Philadelphia, 1879, vol. II, p. 78.
Lucy H. Hooper, Parisian Art-Items, The Art Journal, New York, vol. 5, June 1879, p.189.
Lucy H. Hooper, Contemporary French Artists: Meissonier and Cabanel, The Art Journal, New York, vol. 5, September 1879, p. 286.
Georges Lafenestre, Alexandre Cabanel, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3e per., t. 1, April 1889, p. 278.
Lucy H. Hooper, Parisian Art-Items, The Art Journal, New York, vol. 5, June 1879, p.189.
Lucy H. Hooper, Contemporary French Artists: Meissonier and Cabanel, The Art Journal, New York, vol. 5, September 1879, p. 286.
Georges Lafenestre, Alexandre Cabanel, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3e per., t. 1, April 1889, p. 278.