Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn Wouwermans evolved a personal style

Wouwermans evolved a personal style

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

Burke proposed that it might be a replica

St Petersburg

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Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn Wouwermans evolved a personal styleThis 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