# Paul healing a man who could not walk

- By: Karel du Jardin (Amsterdam, 1626–1678)
- Date: 1663
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 179 cm x width 139 cm x depth 9 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4922--f5d39f672915efa794f2a9f7acb44ece)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/GzpBj/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Du Jardin not only painted landscapes with Italian flair, but also large history paintings inspired by Italian examples. Here, the Apostle Paul towers above a group of sick people. When he heals the feet of a man in the name of the Christian god in Lystra, a city in contemporary Turkey, the onlookers take him to be the heathen god Mercury. Du Jardin understood the art of using figural gestures to enhance the pathos and drama of a scene.