The Good Samaritan Anoints the Man Left for Dead with Oil and Water
Sébastien Bourdon
17th century
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
295 × 434 mm (plate); 441 × 592 mm (plate)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117996
About the Artist
Sébastien Bourdon · 1616–1671
Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671) was a French Baroque painter of remarkable versatility and restless ambition, whose career carried him from the workshops of Paris to the courts of Rome and Stockholm before he returned to France to become a founding member of one of Europe's most important artistic institutions. Born on 2 February 1616 in Montpellier into a Protestant family, Bourdon was apprenticed ...