Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1853 - The Good Samaritan - fine art print

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This picture illustrates the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, who comes to the aid of a wounded man. Having dressed the man’s wounds, the Samaritan is shown carrying him to an inn, where he would pay for the man’s care. The present version was admired by Delacroix in 1853, as Decamps was preparing to close up his Paris studio and retire to Fontainebleau. Its thickly impasted surface is characteristic of Decamps’s late manner, in which subjects of profound moral import are treated with formal austerity.

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This 19th century artwork was made by the male French painter Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps in 1853. The 160 year old artpiece had the following size: 36 5/8 x 29 1/8 in (93 x 74 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the European artist as the medium of the painting. Today, the artwork belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929 (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929. Besides, the alignment is in portrait format with an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps was an artist from France, whose style was primarily Romanticism. The French painter was born in 1803 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and passed away at the age of 57 in 1860.

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