# Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

- By: David Teniers the Younger (After Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588))
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111649)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/11f33728-685f-c85c-2326-cd0e42536044/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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