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Lucas Cranach the Elder

Samson and Delilah

ca. 1528–30
Oil on beech
57.2 × 37.8 cm (22.5 × 14.9 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 607

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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