Master Paintings & Sculpture Day Sale
Master Paintings & Sculpture Day Sale
Auction Closed
January 30, 06:45 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
MASTER OF THE SAMARITAN
active in Rome c. 1610-40
A MALE SAINT BOUND FOR MARTYRDOM
oil on canvas
42¾ by 36½ in.; 108.6 by 92.7 cm.
We are grateful to Gianni Papi for suggesting the attribution to the Master of the Samaritan. This anonymous artist is named for a painting previously on the German art market, and has also been called the Master of the Academy of San Fernando for a series of Apostles he painted in Madrid. He was likely Dutch and his works are stylistically close to those of Dirck van Baburen and Dirck de Haen, his fellow Dutch artists in Rome. The master's characteristically violent tenebrism is on display in this cropped composition.