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Georges Rouault
Samson Turning the Millstone1893

Not on view
Oil painting of two shirtless figures flanking a crimson-draped altar in a torchlit interior, surrounded by a crowd rendered in deep shadow

Georges Rouault, Samson Turning the Millstone, 1893, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Purchase with the De Sylva Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Georges Rouault
France, 1871-1958
Title
Samson Turning the Millstone
Place Made
France
Date Made
1893
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
57 3/4 x 44 7/8 in. (146.68 x 113.98 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase with the De Sylva Fund
Accession Number
M.46.8.2
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
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. Purchased in 1946 by the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Dorival, Bernard, and Isabelle Rouault. Rouault: l'Œuvre peint. Monte Carlo: Éditions A. Sauret, 1988.
  • 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.
Copyright
© 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris