Samson Turning the Millstone

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Samson Turning the Millstone

Alternate Title: Samson tournant la meule

France, 1893
Paintings
Oil on canvas
57 3/4 x 44 7/8 in. (146.68 x 113.98 cm)
Museum Purchase with the De Sylva Fund (M.46.8.2)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1871-1958). Michel Puy, Paris by 1921. Adolphe Basler (1878-1951), Paris. Maurice Sterne (1878-1957) and Vera Segal Sterne, Mt. Kisko, New York by 1944....
The artist (1871-1958). Michel Puy, Paris by 1921. Adolphe Basler (1878-1951), Paris. Maurice Sterne (1878-1957) and Vera Segal Sterne, Mt. Kisko, New York by 1944. Purchased in 1946 by the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
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Bibliography

  • Visionaries and Dreamers. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1956.
  • Valentiner, William Reinhold. The Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection of French Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1950.
  • Visionaries and Dreamers. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1956.
  • Valentiner, William Reinhold. The Mr. and Mrs. George Gard De Sylva Collection of French Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1950.
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