# Samson, in French classicism

Valentin de Boulogne painted this in 1630–31, aged about 39. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> The Old Testament hero Samson rests his head on his hand in a pensive, even melancholic pose. Objects on the table recall two of his heroic deeds: he killed a lion with his bare hands, and liberated the Israelites by slaughtering a thousand Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1630–31
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 157 x 125 x 7 cm (61 13/16 x 49 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 135.6 x 102.8 cm (53 3/8 x 40 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.50
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Valentin de Boulogne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/valentin-de-boulogne), French, 1591–1632

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Valentin de Boulogne's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-valentin-de-boulogne?hang=749) (8 works)
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