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Saint Philip Baptizes the Eunuch
Also titled De doop van de kamerling
Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam, 1695–1754)
1748
- Medium
- oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- overmantel
- Dimensions
- height 215 cm x width 108.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Amsterdam Museum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
The painting depicts the Bible story ‘the baptism of the eunuch’ in which an Ethiopian converts to Christianity and is baptized. For the Moravian Brethren, who met in this room of a canal house, this account represents the idea that the souls of non-Christians could be saved. Moravians travelled to Suriname, among other places, to convert enslaved people and denounce their religions and spirituality as idolatry.
