Ruth and Boas
1640 - 1650
- Medium
- canvas
- Dimensions
- 107.3 × 133.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-110967
Nicolaes Berchem (1620 - 1683). Ruth and Boas, c. 1650. A landscape bathed in sunlight is the decor of this colourful biblical scene. The subject is an episode from the book of Ruth, which recounts how the young widow Ruth left her country and travelled with her mother-in-law to Bethlehem. When they arrived, the harvest had just begun. As Ruth was gleaning the ears of corn from the field of a rich man named Boas, the latter was extremely hospitable. Purchased in 1809, as part of the Van Heteren Gevers collection (The Hague).
Registry history
- 1640 - 1650 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum
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