AT-00024487
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Samson Captured by the Philistines
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna)
- Date
- 1619
- Medium
- Pen and dark brown (iron gall) ink with brush and two hues of brown wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9 9/16 in. × 11 in. (24.3 × 28 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Leon D. and Debra R. Black, Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson, Charles and Jessie Price, and Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Gifts, in honor of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2018
- Accession no.
- 2018.196
More by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) in museum collections
The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)ca. 1650 · Painting
Youth in a Chariot with Attendant Young Woman
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)ca. 1621–23 · Drawing
Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (recto); Another Study of a Youth Kneeling before a Prelate (verso)
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)ca. 1620 · Drawing
Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00024487
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