In a landscape with ruins overgrown with plants, a bearded, old man greets a kneeling young woman and boy near the lower right corner in this horizontal painting. At least seven people move through the landscape beyond, and everyone has light skin and is barefoot. In the trio to the lower right, the man stands facing our right in profile. He has a steel-gray beard and hair, a prominent nose, and his mouth is closed. He wears a thistle-purple tunic under a scarlet-red cloak. He looks down at the woman, and he holds out his right hand, closer to us, toward her. In front of him, to our right,…
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The Prophet Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath

painter Cornelis van Poelenburch (Dutch, 1594/1595 - 1667)

c. 1630

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 35.6 x 47 cm (14 x 18 1/2 in.) ; framed: 51.1 x 62.1 x 5.1 cm (20 1/8 x 24 7/16 x 2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle in honor of John Thomas Rowe, Jr.
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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