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MASTER OF THE SAMARITAN | A MALE SAINT BOUND FOR MARTYRDOM

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.