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 from Eliezer the gifts offered by Abraham. 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. When he arrives in the city, Eliezer leads his ten camels to a well. "He had not yet finished speaking when there came out Rebecca, who was born in Bethuel, the son of Milcah, 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, arriving 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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