# Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GUERCINO](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 116 x 156 cm

## Commentary

This composition presents the figures in three-quarter length behind the ledge of the well which serves as a border, and with a low-horizoned landscape behind. Guercino is known to have studied Venetian painting, and this is evident in his bold use of colour \(particularly in the figure of Christ\) and his painting of the landscape and sky with dense, dark clouds.

## Related artworks

- [A Cosmographer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/a-cosmographer-r48e2c8af84f7f9>)
- [A Donor Presented to the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/a-donor-presented-to-the-virgin-rc041707c2aab18>)
- [Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/abraham-casting-out-hagar-and-ishmael-rffff1562760cfc>)
- [Allegory of Painting and Sculpture](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/allegory-of-painting-and-sculpture-r295ca9498ca2e3>)
- [Apparition of Christ to the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/apparition-of-christ-to-the-virgin-r227af0a829488e>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/assumption-of-the-virgin-rc36a1c3fdefa94>)
- [Aurora](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/aurora-r8deffce0ab3de2>)
- [Aurora](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/aurora-rd7ccbdcd829603>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/ceiling-painting-detail-r009c4e2cecb329>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/ceiling-painting-detail-r29ccb0e33931bb>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/ceiling-painting-detail-r30b467ec75ea72>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/guercino-r7323d13a0dc1c8/ceiling-painting-detail-r45648fec1c446c>)

## Attribution

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