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Christ and the Samaritan Woman, ca. 1823

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 169 x 140.8 cm
  • Inv. S-211

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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 RKD
Brussels 1801 - Molenbeek-Saint-Jean 1829
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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
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6881/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300055874 religious symbolism AAT
300015636 landscapes AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11D Christ Iconclass
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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