File:Balaam and his Ass, Pieter Lastman, 1622, oil on panel, 41.3 by 60.3 cm, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.jpg
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Pieter Lastman: Balaam and his Ass | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lastman’s barefooted Bileam wears is accompanied by servants on horseback. He wears a long scarf that flutters in the breeze. |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | religious art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1622 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil and wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 40.3 cm (15.8 in) ; width: 60.3 cm (23.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+40.3U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+60.3U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q46815
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Accession number |
337994 (Israel Museum) |
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Place of creation | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | https://www.wga.hu/html_m/l/lastman/balaam.html |
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JPEG file comment | LASTMAN, Pieter Pietersz.
(b. 1583, Amsterdam, d. 1633, Amsterdam) Balaam and the Ass 1622 Oil on panel, 41 x 60 cm Israel Museum, Jerusalem The biblical story (Num. 22:1-35) represented here is the following. The arrival of the Israelites in the Jordan valley alarmed Balak, king of Moab, who sent for Balaam, a foreigner, to pronounce a curse on them. On his journey an angel, invisible to Balaam, barred the way, causing his ass to turn aside. This led to an altercation between the man and his beast in which the latter, like the animals of fable, acquired the gift of speech. Balaam's eyes were then opened and he saw the angel with a drawn sword. The conversion of Balaam by the vision of the angel was regarded as prefiguration of the appearance of Christ to the apostle Thomas. This subject is rarely depicted in paintings and prints of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Also in post-Reformation illustrated bibles the subject is exceptional. However, Balaam played a significant role in Netherlandish processional and festival culture of the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Lastman's Balaam and the Ass from 1622 was important for Rembrandt, who studied with Lastman for six months in 1624/25. In his <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/r/rembrand/15oldtes/02oldtes.html')" href="/html/r/rembrand/15oldtes/02oldtes.html">painting of the same subject</a> made in 1626, Rembrandt was clearly influenced by the composition as well as by the lighting and the use of colour of his former teacher.
Author: LASTMAN, Pieter Pietersz. Title: Balaam and the Ass Time-line: 1601-1650 School: Dutch Form: painting Type: religious |
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