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Right Wing of an Altarpiece with the Israelites Gathering Manna
Also titled Rechtervleugel van een altaarstuk met de mannaregen
c. 1510 - c. 1520
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 113.5 cm x width 82.5 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
As in the left wing of this altarpiece, food plays a central role in the right wing. Moses looks on as the starving Israelites gather the manna (heavenly bread) that God rained down on them during their journey through the desert to the Promised Land. Both Old Testament stories were sometimes interpreted as foreshadowing the Last Supper, which was likely the scene on the triptych’s lost centre panel.
