Samson slaying the Philistine
attributed to John Nost I (Mechelen c.1660 – London 1710-1713)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Lead
Measurements
2286 mm (Height)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207395
Summary
Lead, Samson slaying the Philistine, attributed to John Nost I (Mechelen c.1655 – London 1710) after Giambologna, c.1700. Samson slaying the Philistine who taunted him with the jaw-bone of an ass.
Full description
A lead copy of a marble statue by Giambologna (1529-1608). The original, carved in 1560-62 for Francesco I de'Medici (1541-87), was the first of Giambologna's great monumental sculptural groups; it is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (A.7-1954). John Nost I from Mechelen is first recorded in England in 1686, working with the stone carver John Vandestaine at Windsor Castle. Although he worked in marble and stone Nost gained a particular reputation for lead statuary, often copies from the antique, commissioned by royalty and the aristocracy as garden ornamentation. Alice Rylance-Watson January 2019
Provenance
Bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres.
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (The National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to John Nost I (Mechelen c.1660 – London 1710-1713), sculptor after Giambologna (Douai 1529 - Florence 1608), sculptor