Sujet

David Meeting Abigail, early 1630s. Creator: Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens.

Légende

David Meeting Abigail, early 1630s. Additional Info: Depicts the meeting of Abigail and David. Abigail's husband, Nabal of Carmel, foolishly refused to pay for the protection that David had provided for Nabal's shepherds. Angered, David set off to avenge this misdeed with a large group of soldiers. Seeking forgiveness for her husband's offense, Abigail, shown kneeling in the foreground on the left, offers bread, wine, corn, raisins, and fig-cakes to David and his men. Impressed by Abigail's beauty and generosity, David dismounts and attempts to raise Abigail up. Although not shown here, the story ends with Nabal's dying from a stroke after learning of the disaster his wife had averted. David then proposed marriage to Abigail.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A63_469

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

37,6Mo (2,1Mo) / 42,0cm x 22,4cm / 4960 x 2651 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe food drink beauty offering religious landscape fruit meeting arts painting marriage religion corn art alcohol Flanders Belgium color beautiful wine scene Baroque kneeling military depiction century forgiveness soldiers soldier artwork David concept wives wife husband posture liquor 17th century raisin raisins Colour Flemish Old Testament bread seventeenth century TGN Abigail Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens 1630s Baroque Era Painting Heritage Art oil paint (paint) Peter Paul Rubens Workshop of Rubens Peter Paul Workshop of Canvas (Textile Material)