Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Flemish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1600 - circa 1635
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
115 x 185 mm
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Antony Private Collection, Cornwall
NT 353033
Caption
The woman from Samaria, a town whose inhabitants the Jews considered outcasts, was the first person to whom Christ revealed himself as the Messiah, thus demonstrating that his mission was not to the Jews alone. As related in the biblical gospel of John (4:1-30), Christ paused at Jacob's Well on the way from Judaea to Galilee and asked for a drink. As an adulteress and rejected by her own people, the woman was astonished but Christ said: "Everyone who drinks the water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I shall give him will never suffer thirst anymore."
Summary
Oil painting on copper, Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Flemish School, circa 1600-35.
Provenance
On loan from Trustees of Antony
Credit line
Antony, The Carew-Pole Collection
Makers and roles
Flemish School, artist