Master of the Samaritan Woman (active 1490 - 1510)

• The Master of the Samaritan Woman was an Italian painter who worked in Florence.

• The Master of the Samaritan Woman is the provisional name for a previously unrecognized late 15th-century Florentine painter.

• The name was given in 2022 after art historians identified a body of work belonging to a single artist, whose largest and most ambitious known painting is Christ and the Samaritan Woman.

• The painter is associated with the workshop traditions of Filippino Lippi and Domenico Ghirlandaio, showing the influence of late Quattrocento Florentine painting.

• Art historian Everett Fahy, in the Colnaghi Studies Journal, tentatively identified the painter as Niccolò Cartoni, a student of Filippino Lippi mentioned by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists. 

• A significant number of paintings have been identified as coming from the Master of the Samaritan Woman's workshop, with about 30 pictures ascribed to the hand of this hypothetical painter.

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