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    The Good Samaritan
    Alexandre Gabriel Decamps. The Good Samaritan, c. 1842. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00010428

    The Good Samaritan

    by Alexandre Gabriel Decamps

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    Signed in lower left in red: decamps

    Provenance

    Paul Périer, Paris. His collection sale, Paris, 19 December 1846 (lot 2), Le bon Samaritain, 28 x 46 cm, ff 2,405. Galerie B. G. Verte, Paris, 1977. Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.

    Exhibition history

    Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803–1860)
    Date
    c. 1842
    Medium
    oil on fabric
    Dimensions
    Framed: 54 x 71 x 10 cm (21 1/4 x 27 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 28.8 x 46 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    Painting
    Department
    Modern European Painting and Sculpture
    Credit line
    Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
    Accession no.
    1980.253

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