Rebecca and Eleazar at the Well
Technical Details
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Title
Rebecca and Eleazar at the Well -
Author
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta -
Year
1735 - 40 -
Dimensions
cm 102 x 137 -
Inventory
2151 -
Room
XXXV
This picture, a drawing room painting originally in the Contarini collection in Venice, reveals a new, lighter touch in Piazzetta’s art. In this Bible scene, painted to resemble a pastoral idyll, Abraham’s servant Eleazar, whom he sent to seek a wife for his son Isaac, encounters Rebecca by a well. She offers him water and then discreetly accepts the gifts Abraham had sent with Eleazar for his future daughter-in-law.
