Willem de Poorter

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler IV, Landau/Pfalz, 1989, nr. 1602

Literature
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt's rivals, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. VI-5

Iconclass

71F376 Samson's hairlocks are shaved, or cut off (usually with scissors) by a Philistine

Other works by Willem de Poorter

The Queen of Sheba and Solomon

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Vanitas Allegory

Lucretia is found spinning by Sextus Tarquin