Male Nude, Study for Samson and Delilah

Jacques Francois Amand French

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Jean François Amand, a student of the successful history painter, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714-1789) made this study of a male nude as he prepared his entry for the 1756 Prix-de-Rome competition. His winning submission, Samson and Delilah, is today in the Landesmuseum Mainz. In the painting, this figure, who ties Samson’s feet with rope, is depicted clothed and with a plumed helmet.

The attribution to Amand was first suggested by Benjamin Peronnet.

Male Nude, Study for Samson and Delilah, Jacques Francois Amand (French, 1730–1769), Black and white chalk on brown paper

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