id: 143803
accession number: 1968.23
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.23
updated: 2024-03-29 11:23:35.001000
Samson and Delilah, c. 1616. Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590–1656). Oil on canvas; framed: 158.4 x 122.5 x 11.8 cm (62 3/8 x 48 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.); case: 139.7 x 177.8 x 28 cm (55 x 70 x 11 in.); unframed: 129 x 94 cm (50 13/16 x 37 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1968.23
title: Samson and Delilah
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creation date: c. 1616
creation date earliest: 1615
creation date latest: 1617
current location: 217 Italian Baroque
creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture: Netherlands
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590–1656) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 158.4 x 122.5 x 11.8 cm (62 3/8 x 48 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.); Case: 139.7 x 177.8 x 28 cm (55 x 70 x 11 in.); Unframed: 129 x 94 cm (50 13/16 x 37 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1968
opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
title: Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers
opening date: 1998-09-27T00:00:00
Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (organizer) (September 29-December 13, 1998); Milwaukee Art Museum (January 29-April 18, 1999); Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (May 8-July 18, 1999).
title: The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623
opening date: 2001-01-20T00:00:00
The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (January 20-April 16, 2001); Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, Italy (May 2-July 31, 2001).
title: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-03-29T00:00:00
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007).
title: Le Caravagisme Européen
opening date: 2012-06-22T00:00:00
Le Caravagisme Européen. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France (organizer) (June 22-October 14, 2012).
title: Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy
opening date: 2012-11-11T00:00:00
Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (November 11, 2012-February 10, 2013).
title: Gherardo delle Notti
opening date: 2015-02-10T00:00:00
Gherardo delle Notti. Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy (organizer) (February 10-May 24, 2015).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Caravaggio and His Followers, The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 30, 1971-January 2, 1972), no. 35.', 'opening_date': '1971-10-30T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Cleveland, OH (March 29, 2007 - July 8, 2007):', 'opening_date': '2007-03-29T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '[possibly] San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome (1701) ("Dalida" by "Monsù Gerardo", lent by the family of the Marchese Tommaso Raggi, Rome).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Possibly Marchése Tommaso Raggi [1595/6-1676], Genoa and Rome, and descendents
date: After 1621-at least 1701
footnotes:
* In his dissertation, Jan Miel (1599-1644): a Flemish painter in Rome, Thomas Kren suggests that a painting of Dalida (Delilah was referred to as Dalida in Chaucer) by Honthorst that was lent to an exhibition at San Salvatore in Lauro in 1701 by Raggi’s heirs may be the CMA picture.
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[possibly] in the collection of the Ruspoli family, Rome, until sold to an art dealer
date: before 1967
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* According to the dealer who sold the painting to the Hazlitt Gallery, the Honthorst had been in the collection of the Ruspoli family, a noble Italian family with origins traceable to the thirteenth century.
citations:
(Dealer, Rome, sold to the Hazlitt Gallery)
date: until 1967
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(Hazlitt Gallery, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: Until 1968
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
date: 1968-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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Judson, J. Richard. Gerrit Van Honthorst: A Discussion of His Position in Dutch Art. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1959.
page number: Mentioned:p. 147, no. 8
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"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums April- June 1968." The Art Quarterly XXXI, no. 4 (1968): 433-456.
page number: Mentioned: P. 445; reproduced: P. 437
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Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 117
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n141
“La Chronique Des Arts: Les Oeuvres d’art Entrés Dans Les Musées Du Monde Entier En 1968.” Gazette Des Beaux Arts, February 1969, 1–118.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 59
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Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Gerard Van Honthorst: Samson and Delilah." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 9 (1969): 332-44.
page number: Reproduced: p. 335
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152295
“Recent Accessions.” Apollo: The International Magazine of Art & Antiques 91 (May 1970): 400.
page number: Reproduced: P. 400, no. 11
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"Museen und Austellungen." Pantheon XXX, no. 1 (Jan/Feb 1972): 54-73.
page number: Mentnioned: P. 69
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Nicolson, Benedict. "Caravaggesques at Cleveland." The Burlington Magazine 114, no. 827 (February 1972): 113-12.
page number: Mentioned: P. 114
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/876893.
Kahr, Madlyn. "Rembrandt and Delilah." The Art Bulletin 55, no. 2 (June 1973): 240-59.
page number: Mentioned: P. 241, n. 8; reproduced: P. 243, fig. 4
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i354270
Spear, Richard E. Caravaggio and His Followers. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
page number: Mentioned: p. 110, cat. 35; Reproduced: p. 111
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Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 153
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n173
Nicolson, Benedict. The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers Throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650. Oxford: Phaidon, 1979.
page number: Mentioned: 58; Reproduced: pl. 55 (detail)
url:
The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 244; Reproduced: p. 245
url:
Sumowski, Werner. Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler. 6 vols Landau: Edition PVA, 1983-.
page number: Mentioned: vol. 3, p. 1778 (under no. 1183 [Lievens])
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Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, DC: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986.
page number: Reproduced: p. 338, fig. 89
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Muller-Hofstede, Justus. "Artificial Light in Honthorst and Terbrugghen: Form and Iconography." In Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland, 13-44. Rüdiger Klessmann, ed. Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 1987.
page number: Mentioned: p. 26; Reproduced: p. 27, fig. 25.
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Judson, J. Richard. "New Light on Honthorst." In Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland, 111-120 . Rüdiger Klessmann, ed. Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 1987.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 111, 116; Reproduced: fig. 140
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Klessmann, Rüdiger. Hendrick ter Brugghen und die Nachfolger Caravaggios in Holland. Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 1987.
page number: Reproduced: P. 26, fig. 25; Mentioned: n. 125
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Nicolson, Benedict, and Luisa Vertova. Caravaggism in Europe. 3 vols. Torino: U. Allemandi, 1989.
page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 41, 122, 221; Reproduced: vol. 3, pls. 1247, 1248.
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Kren, Thomas, and Jan Miel. Jan Miel (1599-1644): A Flemish Painter in Rome. 1989.
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 108
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Gutbrod, Helga. ""Simson und Delila.' Rembrandts Grisaille im Rijksmuseum Amsterdam." In Festschrift für Christian Lenz: von Duccio bis Beckmann; anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstages am 11. Mai 1998. Felix Billeter, Helga Gutbrod, and Andrea Pophanken, 29-44. Frankfurt a.M: Verlag Blick in die Welt, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 2
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Kupferberg, Herbert. "Song of Solomon," Stagebill (February 1998): 12-16.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12
url:
Sinners & Saints: Darkness and Light : Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers. Dennis P. Weller, Leonard J. Slatkes, and Roger B. Ward. Exh. cat. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 128-130, cat no. 19; reproduced: p. 221, fig. 3,
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Papi, Gianni. Gherardo delle Notti: Gerrit Honthorst in Italia. Soncino: Edizioni dei Soncino, 1999.
page number: Mentioned: 161-162; reproduced: pl. 39
url:
Judson, J. Richard, and Rudolf E. O. Ekkart. Gerrit Van Honthorst, 1592-1656. Doornspijk, The Netherlands: Davaco, 1999.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 54-55, cat. no. 10; Reproduced: pls 4, 4a-b.
url:
The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623. Edited by Beverly Louise Brown. Exh cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 304-305 (detail),313 cat. no 116.
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Wheelock, Arthur K., Stephanie Dickey, and Jan Lievens. Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 110, fig. 1
url:
Hilaire, Michel, and Axel Hémery. Corps et ombres: Caravage et le caravagisme européen. Exh. cat. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (June 23-Oct. 14, 2012); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Nov. 11, 2012-Feb. 10, 2013); and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, (Mar. 8-June 16, 2013). Milan: 5 continents, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: p. 228 no. 52; Reproduced:p. 229. p.
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Caravaggio and His Legacy.J. Patrice Marandel, Gianni Papi, et al. Exh. cat. Los Angeles Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, in association with DelMonico Books / Prestel, 2012.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 121, 163; Reproduced: p. 120
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Neuman, Robert. Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture. Boston, MA : Pearson, 2013.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 186-187
url:
Schnackenburg, Bernhard. Jan Lievens: Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt: with a Catalogue Raisonné of His Early Leiden Work 1623-1632. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2016.
page number: Reproduced: p. 73, fig. 88; Mentioned: p. 74
url:
Osnabrugge, Marije. The Neapolitan Lives and Careers of Netherlandish Immigrant Painters (1575-1655). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
page number: Mentioned: p. 207; Reproduced: p. 208
url:
Lima Taub, Stefanie. "Celebrate Light: Holiday opportunities for illumination.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 4 (2023): 36-37.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 36.
url:
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