Simson en Delila, Lucas van Leyden, 1514 - 1516

Title(s)

Simson en Delila
Grote serie Vrouwenlisten (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-1801

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein Dutch 176-(b)
• Bartsch 6

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Delila knipt haren af van de slapende Simson. Op de achtergrond Simson die door de Filistijnen gevangen wordt genomen.

Artist

• print maker: Lucas van Leyden

Place

Low Countries

Dating

1514 - 1516

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 412 mm × width 290 mm

What

• Samson's hairlocks are cut off by Delilah
• Samson wakes up and finds his hair and strength gone; he is taken prisoner

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Lucas van Leyden en de Renaissance, p. 138, afb. 5.21, cat.nr. 73.2
• Lucas van Leyden [ : 1 1996], p. 157, cat.nr. 176
• 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