Samson and the Lion

1. Francesco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, Madrid, possibly from 1607–1636 [according to Scroth, p. 11]. Swiss private collection, before 1996 [according to copy of original dealer solicitation in curatorial file]. Thomas Howard-Sneyd, London, by 1996; sold to the Art Institute, 1996; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Bertha Harris Wiles, The Fountains of Florentine Sculptors and their Followers from Donatello to Bernini (Harvard University Press, 1933), pp. 13-39, 64, 124–25.
• Anthony Radcliffe, “Two Bronzes: from the Circle of Bernini,” Apollo 108, 202 (December 1978), pp. 422–23, fig. 8.
• Andrea Bachi, Scultura del ‘600 a Roma (Milan: Longanesi, 1996), p. 845.
• Edward L. Goldberg, “Artistic Relations between the Medici and the Spanish courts, 1587–1621: Part II,” Burlington Magazine 138, 1121 (August 1996), pp. 530–32.
• David Eskerdjian, “Scultura del ‘600 a Roma: Andrea Bacchi with the collaboration of Susanna Zanuso,” Apollo (August 1998), p. 58.
• Ian Wardropper, “Cristoforo Stati’s Samson and the Lion: Florentine style and Spanish patronage,” Apollo 150, 451 (September 1999), pp. 30–37.
• Sarah Walker Schroth, “The Duke of Lerma’s Palace in Madrid: A Reconstruction of the original setting for Cristoforo Stati’s Samson and the Lion,” Apollo 144, 474 (August 2001), pp. 11–21.
• Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 156, 475 (September 2001), pp. 3–4, 11–12, fig. 1.

Saint in a Historiated Initial from a Choirbook

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Study for Saint Philip Neri Rescuing a Drowning Youth

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Head of a Youth

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Putto with Raised Arms

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Woman Seated on Clouds

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The Baptism of Christ

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Christ and the Woman of Samaria

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The Nativity

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