Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609)
Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo (Christ and the Samaritan Woman)
1594–1595
Oil on canvas, 170 × 225 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Francesco Sampieri, a resident of Bologna who had fallen on hard times, sold the family picture gallery in 1811. The seven masterpieces that were the pride of the collection were bought by the Kingdom of Italy’s interior minister for the Brera. This picture, together with Agostino’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery and Ludovico’s Christ and the Canaanite Woman, belonged to a small series commissioned by Abbot Astorre Sampieri. Annibale painted the picture before going to Rome in 1595. (Brera)
Compare:
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609)
Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo
c.1596–1597
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609)
Cristo e la Samaritana al pozzo
c.1604–1605
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna