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Left Wing of an Altarpiece with the Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
Also titled Linkervleugel van een altaarstuk met de ontmoeting van Abraham en Melchisedek
c. 1510 - c. 1520
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 113.5 cm x width 82 cm x thickness 4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
These two panels were once the wings of a triptych that was probably made in Antwerp. The scenes are taken from the Old Testament. On the left, Melchizedek, king and high priest of Salem, receives the kneeling Abraham, patriarch of the Israelites, with bread and wine. Together with his army, Abraham has just returned from a victory against the eastern kings.
