Simson en Delila, Lucas van Leyden, 1515 - 1519

Title(s)

Simson en Delila
Kleine serie Vrouwenlisten (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1978-161

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 183-1(2)(a)
• Bartsch 5

Description

Delila knipt de haren van de slapende Simson.

Artist

• print maker: Lucas van Leyden

Place

Low Countries

Dating

1515 - 1519

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 243 mm × width 172 mm

What

• Samson's hairlocks are cut off by Delilah

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1978

Copyright

Public domain

• Lucas van Leyden [ : 1 1996], p. 167, cat.nr. 183
• The luminous image : painted glass roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560, Timothy B. Husband, Ellen Konowitz, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Ilja M. Veldman, p. 123