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SAMARITAN, GOOD (Luke. x. 30), Eugène Delacroix, M. Auguste Vacquerie; canvas, H. 1 ft. 2 in. × 11 in. The good Samaritan striving, with much care and solicitude, to put the wounded traveller upon his horse.—Chesneau, Œuvre Delacroix, 311.

By Rembrandt, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. 9 in. × 4 ft. 6 in.; signed, dated 1648. Two men assisting into an inn a wounded traveller, whose horse a stable-man holds; on right, the Good Samaritan on the steps, purse in hand, commending the sufferer to the care of the landlady; above, three figures looking out of a window. Collection of Louis XVI.; bought at sale of Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht (1785). Engraved by Baron Denon; J. de Frey (1798); Longhi in Musée français; Oortman.—Cat. Louvre; Eastlake, Louvre, 182; Smith, vii. 51; Vosmaer, 213, 476.

Subject treated also by Jacopo Bassano, National Gallery, London, and Vienna Museum; Adam Elsheimer, Louvre; Domenico Feti, Dresden Museum; Paolo Veronese, ib.; Herri de Bles, Vienna Museum; William Hogarth, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Pierre Lacour, Bordeaux Museum; Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Brera, Milan; Louis Cabat (Salon, 1840); Franz Dreber (1848), Dresden Gallery; Théodule Ribot (1870), Luxembourg Museum; Jean Jacques Henner (Salon, 1874).


Samson and Delilah, Anton van Dyck, Vienna Museum.

SAMSON AND DELILAH (Judges, xvi.), Anton van Dyck, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. 7-1/2 in. × 8 ft. 2 in. Samson, just awakened from his slumber, stooping and with one knee on the ground, is struggling with the Philistines; Delilah, in a white vest and red mantle, is lying on the couch, at the head of which is an elderly woman. From Van Amory Collection, Amsterdam (1722), 4,300 florins. Engraved by H. Snyers; Prenner; J. Macunl; L. Bonnet; Axmann; etched by Ch. Waltner (1873). Same subject, Hampton Court.—Smith, iii. 32; Guiffrey, 243; Gaz. des B. Arts (1873).

By Rembrandt, Cassel Gallery; canvas, H. 7 ft. 8 in. × 9 ft. 1 in.; signed, dated 1636. Seven figures. Samson, betrayed by Delilah, who is escaping from the room with his locks in her hand, is insulted by the Philistines, who hold him prostrate. Taken to Paris; returned in 1815. Engraved by F. Landerer (1760); Jacobi (1785).—Vosmaer, 446; Smith, vii. 12; Réveil, iv. 242.

By Rubens, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 8 in. × 4 ft. 1 in. Nine figures. Six Philistines are binding Samson, who is struggling, with one knee on the couch on which Delilah is lying, holding the scissors in her hand; at the head of the couch, an old woman, looking on. Engraved by Henry Snyers; lithographed by Piloty. Similar composition, Vienna Gallery, by Van Dyck.—Smith, ii. 65; ix. 265; Réveil, xiv. 952.

By Alessandro Turchi, Louvre; canvas, H. 5 ft. 3 in. × 8 ft. 5 in. Delilah, seated upon a couch holding the sleeping Samson's head in her lap, gives a signal to two

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