Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
David Teniers the Younger (After Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588))
1654–56
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 20.9 × 30.7 cm (8 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.); Framed: 33.9 × 43.2 × 4.5 cm (13 3/8 × 17 × 1 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac and The Abduction of Europa are among the more than 200 lively, small-scale copies by David Teniers the Younger recording the superb art collection of his patron, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, ruler of the Spanish Netherlands. They were created as models for the engraved illustrations in a catalogue of the archduke’s collection, which was printed and made available for purchase by the public as the Theatrum Pictorium (Theater of painting) in 1660. A prolific painter of peasant subjects and other everyday scenes, Teniers also served as the archduke’s curator.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
