Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn Burke proposed that it might

Burke proposed that it might be a replica

St Petersburg

Copy of a composition by Vrancx

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

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

Venus Gathering Apples Rembrandt van Rijn Burke proposed that it mightThis 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