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Samson and the Lion
Publications
Bertha Harris Wiles, The Fountains of Florentine Sculptors and their Followers from Donatello to Bernini (Harvard University Press, 1933), pp. 13-39, 64, 124–25. Anthony Radcliffe, “Two Bronzes: from the Circle of Bernini,” Apollo 108, 202 (December 1978), pp. 422–23, fig. 8. Andrea Bachi, Scultura del ‘600 a Roma (Milan: Longanesi, 1996), p. 845. Edward L. Goldberg, “Artistic Relations between the Medici and the Spanish courts, 1587–1621: Part II,” Burlington Magazine 138, 1121 (August 1996), pp. 530–32. David Eskerdjian, “Scultura del ‘600 a Roma: Andrea Bacchi with the collaboration of Susanna Zanuso,” Apollo (August 1998), p. 58. Ian Wardropper, “Cristoforo Stati’s Samson and the Lion: Florentine style and Spanish patronage,” Apollo 150, 451 (September 1999), pp. 30–37. Sarah Walker Schroth, “The Duke of Lerma’s Palace in Madrid: A Reconstruction of the original setting for Cristoforo Stati’s Samson and the Lion,” Apollo 144, 474 (August 2001), pp. 11–21. Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 156, 475 (September 2001), pp. 3–4, 11–12, fig. 1.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cristoforo Stati (Italian, 1556–1619)
- Date
- 1604–7
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- 210 × 112 × 84 cm (82 11/16 × 44 1/8 × 33 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- large scale
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Chester D. Tripp Fund
- Accession no.
- 1997.335
Provenance
Francesco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, Madrid, possibly from 1607–1636 [according to Scroth, p. 11]. Swiss private collection, before 1996 [according to copy of original dealer solicitation in curatorial file]. Thomas Howard-Sneyd, London, by 1996; sold to the Art Institute, 1996; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1997.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001975
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