Ferdinand Bol1640

Offer van Gideon

Gideon lays his offering upon the rock, and at the touch of the angel's staff fire rises to consume it as a sign that the Lord is with him (Judges 7). A work by the Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol.

Offer van Gideon by Ferdinand Bol depicting Judges 7
View full resolutionPublic domain via Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-P-BI-1988.Source

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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.