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Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols
Also titled De afgoderij van Jerobeam
Jacques Ignatius de Roore (Antwerp, 1686–1747)
c. 1704 - c. 1744
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 53 cm x width 69 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Jeroboam, the King of Israel, enjoined his people to idolatry to prevent their contact with the Kingdom of Judah. When he tried to arrest a defiant priest during a pagan sacrifice, his hand withered and the altar shattered. He had trespassed God’s First Commandment: ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ De Roore impressed his contemporaries with such depictions of complex stories.
