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  • Title: The Good Samaritan
  • Creator: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803-1860)
  • Date Created: c. 1842
  • Physical Dimensions: Framed: 54 x 71 x 10 cm (21 1/4 x 27 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 28.8 x 46 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
  • Provenance: Paul Périer, Paris. His collection sale, Paris, 19 December 1846 (lot 2), Le bon Samaritain, 28 x 46 cm, ff 2,405. Galerie B. G. Verte, Paris, 1977. Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.253
  • Medium: oil on fabric
  • Inscriptions: Signed in lower left in red: decamps
  • Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
  • Culture: France, 19th century
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
  • Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
  • Accession Number: 1980.253

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