With this painting, Bodumont won the first prize in the history painting competition (section Prix pour les élèves) of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, 1823; Salon van Gent, 1823, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11. He exhibited anonymously in the Concours pour le Tableau d'Histoire, with the theme Le Seigneur et la Samaritaine.
| Artist |
François Antoine Bodumont
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| Title | Christ and the Samaritan Woman |
| Date | ca. 1823 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | S-211 |
| Acquisition credit |
contest
Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Ghent 1823 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/S-211 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6881/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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religious symbolism
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300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11D
Christ
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21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25H112 rocks Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 41A3911 well Iconclass 41A773 container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase Iconclass 41D221(HEADSCARF) head-gear (HEADSCARF) Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 73C public life of Christ: from his baptism until the Passion Iconclass 73C7221 the woman of Samaria (John 4:4-42) Iconclass 73C72212 Christ and the woman of Samaria: sitting at Jacob's well he asks her for a drink from her jug Iconclass |
| School / Style | Neoclassical AAT |
| Catalogue descriptif du Musée de la ville de Gand : précédé d'une notice historique / Adolphe Pierre Sunaert. - Gand : E. Vanderhaeghen, 1870 (p. 150, nr. 211) |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 29) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 74-75 (ill.)) |
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