Ferdinand Bol1632

Offer van Abraham

As Abraham raises the knife to offer his son Isaac on the altar, the angel of the Lord stays his hand and a ram is provided in the boy's place (Genesis 22). A work by the Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol.

Offer van Abraham by Ferdinand Bol depicting Genesis 22
View full resolutionPublic domain via Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-P-BI-1984.Source

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Portrait of Ferdinand Bol

About Ferdinand Bol

1616-1680 · Dutch

Ferdinand Bol was one of Rembrandt's most successful pupils and a leading Amsterdam history painter of the mid-seventeenth century whose biblical commissions grace churches and public buildings across the Dutch Republic.

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