Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn of the original in the

of the original in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp (inv

The cows and standing sheep are repeated in a composition by Roos at Dresden

and depicts the moment when one of the Philistines tries to cut Samson's hair - the source of his strength - without waking him

as Giltay notes

St Petersburg

Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn of the original in theThis little painting was formerly attributed to Domenichino (1581 1641). Its recent cleaning has confirmed its quality, and it may have originated in the master's studio. A painting in Helsinki's Sinebrychoff Museum, of Apollo and Daphne, repeats the nude figure. Both paintings, not necessarily by the same artist, presumably have their roots in a single drawing, probably of the famous classical statue of Venus Callipygeia ('Venus of the beautiful