The Good Samaritan, Marble statue in Tuileries Garden, France.
The Good Samaritan is a marble statue showing two figures, one helping another who is injured. It stands in the Tuileries Garden as part of the classical sculptures that sit along the pathways around the Grand Bassin Rond.
François-Léon Sicard won the competition for this marble group, which was installed in the Tuileries in 1905, the date of its inception. The subject is the parable of the Good Samaritan, and the work belongs to the campaign of public sculpture placed in the garden under the Third Republic.
The statue depicts the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke, in which a traveller beaten by robbers is passed by a priest and a Levite before a Samaritan stops to bind his wounds. Sicard shows the Samaritan lifting the injured man, and the group stands among the works placed in the Tuileries under the Third Republic.
The statue sits near the Grand Bassin Rond and is accessible whenever the garden is open. Visit early in the day for the best light and fewer crowds around the sculpture.
Sicard's marble group was placed in the Tuileries in 1905, the year of its inception, not 1896. Look for the signature and date cut into the base, which identify the sculptor François-Léon Sicard and fix the work's place in the garden's early-20th-century sculpture campaign.
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