A man and woman greet each other at the center of a group of about a dozen people set within a landscape in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale, peachy skin. In the middle of the crowd, a woman, Abigail, kneels to our left while a man to our right, David, reaches out to her. Abigail’s blond hair is tied back under a white veil that drapes over her shoulders, and she wears a slate-blue dress and a string of pearls around her neck. She holds her left hand, on our right, to her chest and her other hand gestures down to a basket of bread held by a man in the lower left corner of…
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The Meeting of David and Abigail

painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

c. 1630

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (without added strip): 44.7 x 66.3 cm (17 5/8 x 26 1/8 in.) ; overall (with added strip): 46.4 x 68 cm (18 1/4 x 26 3/4 in.) ; framed: 67 x 88.3 x 7.9 cm (26 3/8 x 34 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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