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Peter Paul Rubens · c.1609-10

Samson and Delilah (Rubens)

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Samson sleeps in Delilah's lap while a young man snips his hair by candlelight, an old procuress holds the light and Philistine soldiers wait in the doorway behind. National Gallery, London.

Up to 26.5 × 24 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

17.7″16″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Samson and Delilah (Rubens)

The painting was commissioned by Nicolaas Rockox, mayor of Antwerp and a close friend of Rubens, for his house in Antwerp, to hang above a tall mantelshelf. It is dated about 1609 to 1610. Some scholars have questioned the attribution to Rubens, but most accept it.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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