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Samson holding the jaw bone of an ass over his head and standing next to the Philistines he has just killed, more dead bodies in the background, a tapered composition with rounded top, after Reni

Flaminio Torre (Torri)

Samson holding the jaw bone of an ass over his head and standing next to the Philistines he has just killed, more dead bodies in the background, a tapered composition with rounded top, after Reni

Flaminio Torre (Torri)
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Period

Baroque

Theme

Portrait

Medium

Etching

Current Location

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Story

Samson holding the jaw bone of an ass over his head and standing next to the Philistines he has just killed, more dead bodies in the background, a tapered composition with rounded top, after Reni by Flaminio Torre (Torri).

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951.

“A silence so complete it becomes its own witness.”

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