Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah is a 1629–1630 painting by Rembrandt, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It is first recorded in Frederick Henry of Orange's collection in the Hague in 1632 and passed down through the family until Huis Honselaarsdijk and its contents were bequeathed to Frederick I of Prussia on the death of William III of Orange. Frederick's son Frederick the Great probably moved the painting to Berlin in 1742. In 1793 it was mentioned as a work by Govert Flinck in the inventory of the Berlin Stadtschloss, and it remained there until moving to its present home in 1906.

The attribution of this painting is debated. The grisaille was considered as an autograph Rembrandt that might have served as a preparatory sketch for Rembrandt's painting of this subject in Berlin. Later it was assigned to Jan Lievens. Recently it was reattributed to Rembrandt assuming that it was a prototype for an etching never executed.