WILLEM DE POORTER | Delilah giving orders to cut Samson's hair
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May 8, 12:10 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Belgian Private Collection
WILLEM DE POORTER
Haarlem 1608 - after 1648
Delilah giving orders to cut Samson's hair
oil on oak panel
55.4 x 69.9 cm.; 21¾ x 27½ in.
Probably with Galerie Sickingen, 1819;
Probably Kuranda, 1908.
Probably W. Sumowski, Gemälde de Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. IV, Landau/Pfalz 1983, p. 2406, under cat. no. 1602.
The prime version of this composition is in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no. 820 A), and varies slightly in certain details, for example in the placement of the group of soldiers in the background.