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King David’s Sacrifice
Also titled Het offer van koning David
Felice Giani (San Sebastiano Curone, 1758–1823)
c. 1812
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 489 mm x width 673 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of Mr and Mrs Van Hulsen-Ognibeni/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Felice Giani was a productive painter who decorated rooms with colourful history scenes. This drawing was probably made on commission. Neoclassically oriented artists hardly ever chose scenes from the Old Testament as subjects. Here we see God – in the guise of an angel with an olive branch – finally reconciling with King David during a sacrificial offering. No painting or fresco by Giani of this theme is known.
