Bert Samples
The Aquatic Saracen

ArtistAmerican, born 1955
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Aquatic Saracen
Date1985
MediumCharcoal with stumping and erasing, brush and ink, and pen and ink on wove paper
Dimensions29 7/8 × 39 1/2 in. (75.9 × 100.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by friends of the artist, and partial gift of the artist, in memory of his father
Object number2010.1970
Not on view

Explore Further

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Contemporary Artists in Houston from the Collections of William J. Hill and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Glassell School of Art, August 3–November 11, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
No visible marks or inscriptions - framed
Signed in the image, lower right: Bert

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Lady with a Turtle
Bert Samples
c. 1983
Graphite on paper
2009.423
Overall recto.
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
1886
Charcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, on laid paper, mounted on paper board
2023.486
Landscape with a Farmhouse and a Peasant Wheeling a Barrow
Léon Bonvin
1865
Watercolor heightened with gouache, pen and sepia-toned ink over graphite with stumping on wove paper
96.729
The Builder
Eric Schnell
2005
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and ink, with blue color pencil on wove paper
2005.1837
A Servant before a Group of Orientals
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
c. 1745-50
Pen and ink, brush and ink, and gray wash on antique laid paper
2017.381
Martin Disler
1981
Brush and black ink, pen and blue ink on paper
96.67.9
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
possibly 18th century or probably 19th century
Brush and brown wash, probably bistre, pen and brown ink over red ink underdrawing heightened and corrected with white lead on paper
83.224
Untitled
Martin Disler
1981
Charcoal and brush and blue ink on paper
96.67.7
Untitled
Martin Disler
1981
Brush and black ink and charcoal on paper
96.67.6
The Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
17th century
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash on laid paper
2023.182
Sketchbook
George Romney
September 1783
Book with pen and sepia ink, brush and sepia wash, black chalk and graphite on laid paper
78.187