GIOVANNI BATTISTA LANGETTI (GENOA 1635-1676 VENICE)
Samson
oil on canvas
26³⁄₄ x 64³⁄₈ in. (68 x 163.5 cm.)

Private collection, France.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 17 June 1988, lot 808.

M. Stefani Mantovanelli, 'Giovanni Battista Langetti', Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell’Arte, XVII, 1990, p. 63, illustrated, p. 269, fig. 33.
M. Stefani Mantovanelli, Giovanni Battista Langetti: Il Principe dei Tenebrosi, Soncino, 2011, pp. 68 and 157-158, pl. XI and XII, no. 39.

New York, Piero Corsini Inc., Baroque Paintings, 9 October-16 November 1992.
Monte Carlo, Maison d'Art, Genua Tempu Fà, 24 October-24 November 1997.
Monte Carlo, Maison d’Art, La Pittura Eloquente, 16 June-16 July 2010, no.17.

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