File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Samson und Delilah.jpg

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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Samson and Delilah  wikidata:Q19911923 reasonator:Q19911923
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Edit this at Wikidata Weimar Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
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Title
Samson and Delilah
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Depicted people
Date between circa 1528 and circa 1530
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1528-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on beech wood
Dimensions height: 57.2 cm (22.5 in); width: 37.8 cm (14.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,57.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,37.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Gallery 643
Accession number
1976.201.11
Object history Barrie Simmons (until 1961; sale, Sotheby's, London, June 14, 1961, no. 107, for £11,000 to Markham, bought in; sold for £10,000 to Kleinberger for Payson); Joan Whitney Payson, New York and Manhasset (1961–d. 1975)
Credit line Bequest of Joan Whitney Payson, 1975
Inscriptions Artist's insignia, centre right, on tree stump: winged serpent
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: FR213
References Cranach Digital Archive
RKDimages, Art-work number 238282
Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 436041)
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