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The Good Samaritan, c. 1842. oil on fabric.
oil on fabric · Framed: 54 x 71 x 10 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- The Good Samaritan
- Artist
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803–1860)
- Date
- c. 1842
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 54 x 71 x 10 cm (21 1/4 x 27 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 28.8 x 46 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1803–1860
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.