Samson and Delilah

ca. 1517

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Woodcut; second state
Dimensions: image: 9 9/16 x 6 3/4 in. (24.3 x 17.1 cm) sheet: 14 x 9 1/16 in. (35.6 x 23 cm)
Collection no.: 22.67.57
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Lucas van Leyden. Samson and Delilah. Lucas van Leyden; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1922. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Samson and Delilah — Lucas van Leyden. ca. 1517.

Medium: Woodcut; second state. Dimensions: image: 9 9/16 x 6 3/4 in. (24.3 x 17.1 cm) sheet: 14 x 9 1/16 in. (35.6 x 23 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1922.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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