Samson, condemned to turn the millstone, is the laughing stock of the
Philistines
Oil on original canvas
Signed lower left
Green wax stamp on canvas upper right
Monte Carlo exhibition label with artist's name and title on verso.
Height 74.5 cm - Width 130 cm (minor restorations)
Like Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) and Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891), Emilio Vasarri became a specialist in depicting Greco-Roman episodes from antiquity. The work we present illustrates the chained slave Samson, condemned to turn a millstone (Judges, 16:1).
For this work, Vasarri was awarded first prize at the Florence Academy
and a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.
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