The painting, together with the one with Giaele and Sisara , comes from a villa located in Genoa Cornigliano, which previously belonged to the Spinolas and was then sold to the Dufour family in the 19th century. Various documents from the historical archive conserved in Palazzo Spinola inform us of numerous renovations in that holiday residence, above all by Paolo Francesco Spinola, owner of Palazzo Spinola between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

As in the canvas that acts as a pendant , also in this painting an episode taken from the Book of Judges has been depicted with the intention of exalting two heroines of the Old Testament: Delilah, hired by the Philistines, manages to get Samson to reveal that the secret of its strength lies in the hair. The girl then makes him cut his hair while he sleeps, favoring his capture.