Christ and the Samaritan Woman

Prints and Drawings

c. 1510

Giulio Campagnola
Italian, c. 1482-1515/18

This print depicts Jesus traveling through the ancient region of Samaria, where he stopped at a well and asked a local woman for a drink of water. The woman recognized Jesus as a prophet and summoned the villagers to listen to what he had to say. Here, Giulio Campagnola set the encounter outside a lagoon city that strongly resembles Venice, depicting the woman in contemporary 16th-century dress. Campagnola devised an innovative way of engraving with minute dots that enabled soft tonal transitions, while his unusual choice to crop the figure of Jesus speaks to his bold approach to composition.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giulio Campagnola
Title: Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1505–1515
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 13.2 × 18.6 cm (5 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 13.8 × 19.4 cm (5 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1945.219
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Jay A. Levenson, Prints of the Italian Renaissance: A Handbook of the Exhibition, (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1973), no. 284.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Prints of the Italian Renaissance,” June 23–October 7, 1973; also traveled to San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, November 10, 1973–January 13, 1974.

Hind V.200.11 II/II

Borenius 8 II/II

Bartsch XIII.370.2

Galichon 2 II/II

Kristeller 2 II/II

Bartsch, illustrated 2518.002 II/II

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