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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
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
  • Visionaries and Dreamers. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1956.