BIBLE I (plate 57): “Samson renverse les colonnes”

Artist Marc Chagall French, 1887–1985

Date1956

MediumLithograph on Arches vellum

Dimensions12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of Colonel Kenneth R. Bland

Object numberG.71.43.2/57

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ProvenanceCommissioned by Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris, 1930; plates created France, 1931–1939 and 1952–1956; printed by Maurice Potin and Raymond Haasen, Paris, 1956. Colonel Kenneth R. Bland (1923–1981), Arlington, VA; given to NCMA, 1971.

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