Art, literature & history
Samson and the Lion
c. 1475
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.100
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Israhel van Meckenem. Samson and the Lion. Israhel van Meckenem; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Israhel_van_Meckenem,_Samson_and_the_Lion,_c._1475,_NGA_3312.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Samson and the Lion — Israhel van Meckenem. c. 1475.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.7 x 10.5 cm (5 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.100. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.