While Samson sleeps in Delilah’s lap, a Filistine cuts off his hair (Judges 16:19), c. 1609
panel (wood), oil paint, 51.8 x 50.6 cm
- Current attribution
- Date
- c. 1609
- Title
- While Samson sleeps in Delilah’s lap, a Filistine cuts off his hair (Judges 16:19)
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Iconclass
pernicious influence of women, 'femmes fatales'
Samson's hairlocks are shaved, or cut off (usually with scissors) by a Philistine
- Object
- Support/medium
- Shape/sizes
- 51.8 x 50.6 cm
- Artistic relationship
- While Samson sleeps in Delilah’s lap, a Filistine cuts off his hair (Judges 16:19)
NB David Jaffé suggests that this sketch might be a ricordo made for Matham to make his engraving (RKD, no. 27850), Jaffé & McGrath 2005, p. 166, under no. 77. An argument for David Jaffé’s suggestion is that the Cincinnati picture differs not so much from the National Gallery painting, at least not so much as other Rubens modelli differ from the definitive versions. However: on this painting Samson's feet have been cut off just like on the painting in the National Gallery, while Matham's (mirror-image) print shows them completely with extra space on the left. All other authors consider this sketch to be a modello for Rubens' picture in the National Gallery. - Samson asleep in Delilah's lap while his hairlocks are cut off by a Philistine (Judges 16:19)
- While Samson sleeps in Delilah’s lap, a Filistine cuts off his hair (Judges 16:19)
- Collection(s)
- Private collection
Antwerp, Johannes Philippus Happart
until 1686 - Cincinnati Art Museum , inv./cat.nr. 1972-459
Mr and Mrs Harry S. Leyman Endowment, 1972.459
from 1972
- Private collection
- Auction(s)
- Christie's , Auction at Christie's, London (England) (1966-11-25), 1966-11-25, lot number: 66
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Held 1980, vol. 1, p. 8, 10, 430-434, no. 312, 439; vol. 2, pl. 309, color pl. 2
- Scott 1987, no. 41
- Jaffé 1989, p. 165, no. 89
- Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, vol. 3 (1989), p. 114-115, no. 31b
D’Hulst & Vandenven 1989 - Sutton 2004, p. 88-92, no. 2 (M.E. Wieseman)
- Jaffé/McGrath/Moore Ede 2005, p. 161, fig. 56, under nos. 72-76, p. 166, under no. 77
- Other literature
- T. Buddensieg, 'Simson und Dalila von Peter Paul Rubens', in: Festschrift O. von Simson, 1977, p. 328-345
- M. Jonker and E. Bergvelt, Catalogue of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Dutch, Flemish and German Schools, with addenda to the British School, published online in RKDStudies in 2021 [an enlarged version of Jonker & Bergvelt 2016], under DPG127 (Anthony van Dyck; RKD, no. 105905), Related works, no. 3b
- Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Rubens: I: Het werk tot 1620, Rotterdam 1980, p. 98-99, nr. 83
- P. R. Adams, 'Peter Paul Rubens: Samson and Delilah', The Cincinatti Art Museum Bulletin 10 (October 1973), p. 3-7
- F. Vermeylen, K. De Clippel, ‘Rubens and Goltzius in dialogue: Artistic exchanges between Antwerp and Haarlem during the Revolt’, De Zeventiende Eeuw 28 (2012) 2, p. 138-160, fig. 6
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