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1635 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
Samson Threatening His Father-In-Law is a 1635 oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.[1] It depicts the Biblical story of Samson, who has returned home after an absence to find that his father-in-law has given away Samson's Philistine wife to another man.[2] Samson's reaction was to set fire to the crops in the Philistines' fields.
The painting's narrative subject is "virtually without precedent in Dutch art" according to art historian Gary Schwartz, who says that the painting may have been commissioned by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and that the bellicose subject may allude to a contemporary event: the fighting in Kleve between Spain and the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War.[3]
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- ^ "Simson bedroht seinen Schwiegervater". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- ^ Schwartz, Gary (1985). Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings. London: Penguin. p. 177. ISBN 0-14-015766-2
- ^ Schwartz, Gary (1985). Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings. London: Penguin. pp. 177–180. ISBN 0-14-015766-2
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