STEEN, Jan

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Samson and Delilah

1667-70
Oil on canvas, 134 x 199 cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

This splendid, large-scale painting shows a typical Dutch combination of biblical or mythological history painting with the characteristics of narrative genre painting. It depicts a scene from Abraham Koninck's 1618 play, The Tragedy of Samson, a parable of false love.