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Saul and the Witch of Endor
Fearing the outcome of a battle, Saul, king of the Israelites, consulted the fortune-telling witch of Endor. On hearing that he would lose, the king threw himself on his sword. His suicide – in the middle background – is a warning against witchcraft. In the foreground is a Witches’ Sabbath: the fortune-teller sits within a chalk circle, surrounded by other witches, satyrs and imaginary figures.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/71H315
- http://iconclass.org/13B4
- http://iconclass.org/71H322
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/71H315
- http://iconclass.org/13B4
- http://iconclass.org/71H322
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1526
- 1526
Place-Time
- second quarter 16th century
Places
- Amsterdam
- Amsterdam
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.41
Provenance
- ...; sale, Louis-Maximilien Beauvois (?-1796, Valenciennes), Valenciennes (Pillion), 19 May 1879, no. 1, as Jean-Walter van Assen, fl. 500, to the museum{Copy RKD; NHA, ARM, Kop, inv. 39, pp. 268-70, nos. 19, 23, 27 (31 May 1879); NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 161, no. 307 (3 June 1879).}
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8169
- SK-A-668
Extent
- height 85.5 cm
- width 122.8 cm
- height 87 cm
- width 121.6 cm
- height 104.2 cm
- width 138.9 cm
- thickness 5 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1526
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:17:29.619Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:15.785Z