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

External links

Gemäldegalerie Accession number 820A

Other works by Willem de Poorter

Grave Robbers (Vanitas Allegory)

The Queen of Sheba and Solomon

The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Lucretia is found spinning by Sextus Tarquin