Peter Paul Rubens

Samson and Delilah

US$ 687.00

Samson sleeps across Delilah’s lap while a barber cuts his hair by candlelight and armed Philistines wait in the doorway. Rubens compresses the whole story into one instant of stillness before catastrophe, lighting the scene from a single flame so the muscular back of the sleeping man dominates everything. The painting’s attribution has been publicly contested for decades, which has only raised its profile.

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) ran the largest and most productive workshop in seventeenth-century Europe, serving as court painter and diplomat across several courts while producing altarpieces, portraits, mythologies and hunting scenes at extraordinary volume. He trained in Italy for eight years, absorbing Titian and Caravaggio, before returning to Antwerp. His fleshy, dynamic figures defined the Northern Baroque.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 46 × 42 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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