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'''''Samson Mocked''''' or '''''The Mockery of Samson''''' is a c.1670 painting by [[Jan Steen]], now in the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp]].<ref name="NOS2216141"> [https://ift.tt/2OoxeHE Schilderij van Jan Steen ontdekt in Belgisch depot], NOS.nl, 9 February 2018</ref>
It appeared in an 18th century auction catalogue described as "a painting of Samson bound by the Philistines, by Jan Steen, very good and with rare ideas". From the 1940s until 2018 it was thought to be an 18th century copy by [[Ignatius de Roore]] of a work by van Steen.<ref name="VRT20180209">[https://ift.tt/2AmTdfo Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen is een topstuk rijker], [[VRT NWS]], 9 February 2018</ref><ref name="NOS2216141" /><ref>Stefan Kuiper, [https://ift.tt/2BSA30z De Jan Steen die geen Jan Steen was, is dus wél een Jan Steen], de Volkskrant, 12 February 2018</ref> It was investigated and restored at the [[Mauritshuis]] in [[The Hague]] in 2018 and reattributed back to Steen.<ref name="VRT20180209" />
==References==
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[[category:1670 paintings]]
[[category:Paintings by Jan Steen]]
[[Category:Paintings depicting Hebrew Bible people]]
[[category:Paintings of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp]]
'''''Samson Mocked''''' or '''''The Mockery of Samson''''' is a c.1670 painting by [[Jan Steen]], now in the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp]].<ref name="NOS2216141"> [https://ift.tt/2OoxeHE Schilderij van Jan Steen ontdekt in Belgisch depot], NOS.nl, 9 February 2018</ref>
It appeared in an 18th century auction catalogue described as "a painting of Samson bound by the Philistines, by Jan Steen, very good and with rare ideas". From the 1940s until 2018 it was thought to be an 18th century copy by [[Ignatius de Roore]] of a work by van Steen.<ref name="VRT20180209">[https://ift.tt/2AmTdfo Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen is een topstuk rijker], [[VRT NWS]], 9 February 2018</ref><ref name="NOS2216141" /><ref>Stefan Kuiper, [https://ift.tt/2BSA30z De Jan Steen die geen Jan Steen was, is dus wél een Jan Steen], de Volkskrant, 12 February 2018</ref> It was investigated and restored at the [[Mauritshuis]] in [[The Hague]] in 2018 and reattributed back to Steen.<ref name="VRT20180209" />
==References==
<references/>
[[category:1670 paintings]]
[[category:Paintings by Jan Steen]]
[[Category:Paintings depicting Hebrew Bible people]]
[[category:Paintings of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp]]
July 30, 2018 at 05:55AM
