3783574 \'Samson puts down the pillars\' by Tissot - Bible by Tissot, James Jacques Joseph (1836-1902) (after); (add.info.: \'Samson puts down the pillars\' by J James Tissot. Samson pushes over the pillars at the Philistine temple at a sacrificial ceremony to the deity Dagon. Illustration to the Book of Judges 16.29 : \'And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.\' JT: French painter, 15 October 1836 ? 8 August 1902); Lebrecht History.