Three men, one woman, and three camels gather around the stone ledge of a well in this horizontal landscape painting. Along the left edge of the composition and on the far side of the well, a man with brown skin and short, black hair faces away from us as he reaches for the reins of two camels, one of which looks at or toward us. This man wears an emerald-green shirt under a canary-yellow tunic, which is tied in place with a strap over one shoulder. With her back to that man, a woman with pale, white skin stands angled toward the two light-skinned men who stand to our right, in the center of…
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Rebecca at the Well

painter Veronese (Venetian, 1528 - 1588)

and painter Italian 16th Century

c. 1582/1588

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 145.5 x 282.7 cm (57 5/16 x 111 5/16 in.) ; framed: 175.3 x 313.1 x 10.2 cm (69 x 123 1/4 x 4 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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