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Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Barnes I.5

Literature
Koenraad Jonckheere, The Auction of King William's Paintings 1713, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2008, fig. 105
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt's rivals, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. IIA-44

Exhibitions

2021 Rembrandt in Amsterdam, Nr. 25
2012 The Young Van Dyck, Nr. 29

Provenance

?David Amory, Amsterdam, 1711
?his sale, Amsterdam, 23 June 1722
Sir Gregory Page, of Blackheath, Greenwich, before 1767
anonymous (Page) sale, at Bertels, London, 26 May 1783, perhaps to Desenfans
Desenfans private sale, London, 8 April 1786 (for the first time wrongly as Rubens), not sold
bequeathed by Desenfans, died 1897, to Sir Francis Bourgeois
bequeathed by Bourgeois (as Rubens)
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Iconclass

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

External links

RKD 105905

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