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Philistine soldiers to seize him; a barber is cutting off his hair, and at left two children have his sword and the ass's jawbone.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Landon.
Subject treated also by Lucas Cranach, Dresden and Augsburg Museums; Adrien van der Werff, Sans Souci, Potsdam; Gerard Honthorst, City Hall, Dordrecht; Gotfried Schalken, Bordeaux Museum; Jacopo Sementi, ib.; Eugène Delacroix, M. Daubigny, Paris; Louis Marie Baader (Salon, 1857); Ferdinand Humbert (Salon, 1873).
SAMSON'S WEDDING,
Rembrandt, Dresden
Gallery; canvas, H.
4 ft. × 5 ft. 10 in.; signed,
dated 1638. Samson's
wife (portrait of Saskia)
seated at table with other
guests, before a dais, in a
hall richly hung with tapestry;
at left, Samson
proposing his enigma to
the Philistines, among
whom are musicians with
instruments. Engraved
by Massaloff.—Vosmaer,
80, 450; Bode, Studien,
443, 568.
SAMSON VICTORIOUS,
Guido Reni, Bologna Gallery; canvas,
H. 8 ft. 1 in. × 6 ft. 9 in. Samson, nearly
nude, after battle quenches his thirst with
water from the jaw-bone of an ass with
which he has slain a thousand Philistines.
Duplicate of picture in Turin Gallery. Engraved
by Bolognini; Tomba.—Pinac. di
Bologna, Pl. 6; Lavice, 12, 410.
SAMUEL, INFANT, Sir Joshua Reynolds,
National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft.
10 in. × 2 ft. 3 in. Infant Samuel, full-length,
kneeling at prayer, with a ray of
light falling upon him. Exhibited at Royal
Academy in 1776; bequeathed by Lord
Farnborough in 1838. Engraved by J.
Dean; J. Lucas; and others. Duplicates
in Dulwich Gallery, Cobham Hall, and other
collections. Copy by J. R. Powell at
Somerby, seat of Earl of Normanton, mistaken
for an original by Waagen, who calls
it the finest example he knows of the picture.—Pulling,
59; Waagen, Art Treasures,
iii. 26.
Samson and Delilah, Rembrandt, Cassel Gallery.
SAMUEL APPEARING TO SAUL, Salvator
Rosa, Louvre; canvas, H. 8 ft. 11 in.
× 6 ft. 3 in. The shade of Samuel evoked
by the Witch of Endor, who stirs the fire
on a tripod; at left, Saul, prostrate, raises
his eyes to Samuel; in background, behind
Samuel, the two soldiers of Saul, stricken
with fear; behind the witch, skeletons, owls,
and fantastic forms. Collection of Louis
XIV. Engraved by Guttemberg.—Villot,
Cat. Louvre; Musée royal; Landon, Musée,
ix. Pl. 18; Filhol, xi. Pl. 67.
SANCHEZ DE CASTRO, JUAN, flourished
at Seville, middle of 15th century,
died after 1516. Spanish school; painted
in 1454, under influence of the Van Eyck
school, pictures for the Cathedral of Seville,
and in 1484 a St. Christopher in fresco, in
S. Juliano, repainted in 1775. He was the
first painter of note in the school of Andalusia.—Stirling,
i. 81; Cean Bermudez.
SANCHEZ COELLO, ALONSO, born at