King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem

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King David Receiving the Cistern Water of Bethlehem

Master of the Antwerp Adoration Group (Netherlandish, active c. 1520)LinkedCulture matchlcp-4ea0e086b7f8

Date
1515–20
Medium
Oil on panel transferred to canvas
Culture
Belgium
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
111671

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This scene and that of King Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba are particularly fine examples of the decorative style practiced in Antwerp by a group of largely anonymous artists now dubbed Antwerp Mannerists. The paintings originally formed the interior of the wings of a folding triptych with the Adoration of the Magi as its center. Both show gifts being presented to a ruler on his throne and would have been understood as Old Testament prefigurations of the submission of the nations to Christ as king, the theme of the lost Adoration panel. They also provided an excuse for the artist to depict exotic costumes, architecture, and luxury goods—the hallmarks of the Antwerp Mannerist style.

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Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
Provenance
Durand-Ruel, Paris, by 1880/82 [Durand-Ruel stockbook for these years; letter from Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Oct. 19, 1999, in curatorial file]; sold to Charles L. Hutchinson (d. 1924), Chicago, May 8, 1890 [shipped to Chicago on July 16, 1890, Art Institute Archive]; by descent to his widow, Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (d. 1936), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1936.

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Object type
AAT300033618

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