The Good Samaritan attending the Wounded Traveller at the Inn

Giovanni Battista Langetti (Genoa 1635 - Venice 1676). Oil painting on canvas, The Good Samaritan attending the Wounded Traveller at the Inn by Giovanni Battista Langetti (Genoa 1635 - Venice 1676). A wounded man, seen three-quarter length, turned to the left, is wearing a loin cloth and tended by an older man in a red cloak, behind them two other figures are open mouthed, while a third assists the Good Samaritan. Langetti became the leader of the so-called Venetian Tenebrists - painters employing earthy realism and strong chiaroscuro, ultimately derived, through Luca Giordano, from Caravaggio - who included other immigrants, such as the Modenese Antonio Zanchi and the German, Johann Carl Loth. Death and suicides were a particular predilection of his, but their precise protagonists are sometimes ambiguous. There are other versions of this subject in the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyons, and the Holburne of Menstrie Museum in Bath, the latter being upright Osterley Park and House, London (Accredited Museum)