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Flemish School 17th century, 155 cm, Circle of Martin de Vos, Rebecca and Eliezer
Period: Flemish School 17th century
Subject: Rebecca and Eliezer
Signed: anonymous
Technique: Oil on canvas, Old relining, Good condition
Large format
Format: With frame 155 x 112 cm - Without frame 144 x 100 cm
Frame: New gilded wood, Very good condition
Rebecca and Eliezer:
Rebecca receiving the gifts offered by Abraham from Eliezer. Abraham sends his servant Eliezer to find a companion for Isaac in distant Mesopotamia, among his own relatives. He swears that he will not bring a Canaanite woman back to Isaac.
Upon his arrival in the city, Eliezer leads his ten camels to a well. "He had not yet finished speaking, and behold, Rebecca came out, who had been born to Bethuel, the son of Milka, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, and she had her jar on her shoulder."
Foreshadowing The Annunciation, the biblical subject is taken from Genesis (24, 15-20): charged by Abraham to find a wife for his son Isaac, Eliezer will recognize her when, having arrived near a well, Rebecca will give him something to drink.
Maarten de Vos, Maerten de Vos:
Martin de Vos or Marten de Vos born in 1532 in Antwerp, where he died on December 4, 1603, is a Flemish painter of religious, allegorical, historical subjects and portraits.
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