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

The Queen of Sheba and Solomon

Grave Robbers (Vanitas Allegory)

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Vanitas Allegory

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia