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Samson and Delilah
Giuseppe Caletti (Italian, about 1600–about 1660)
1630–50
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 x 15 cm (5 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)(trimmed on the platemark)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP13898
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 04; Illustrated Bartsch 04
Marks
Verso, upper left, stamped in black ink, an unidentified collector's mark (the initials "FGA" in a circle surmounted by a cross, the entire device inside a double circle)(not in Lugt); verso, left center, in pencil, the mark of Dr. Pietro Malenza, Verona (d. 1866)(Lugt 2101), 1855; verso, lower left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, lower left-center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceUnidentified collector ("FGA")(mark not in Lugt); Dr. Pietro Malenza, Verona (d. 1866)(Lugt 2101), 1855; Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897