Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Flemish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
318 x 406 mm (12 1/2 x 16 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872126
Caption
According to the biblical story Jesus, at the sixth hour, at noon, on the way from Judea to Galilee, arrives at Jacob's well, outside the town of Sychar in Samaria, where he meets a woman. Samarians traditionally were not friends of Jews and this particular woman was known to be an adulterer so would have been disliked by her own too. He shocks her by requesting a drink but says: " Whossoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst." which exemplifies his generous nature to all. The disciples are returning from the town and are surprised to find him talking to her.
Summary
Oil painting on copper, Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Flemish School, 17th century.Christ seated at the well, the woman standing beside him, at the left; to the right the ground slopes towards a town in the middle distance, from which various figures are approaching.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (1878-1962)
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Flemish School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Adam Elsheimer (Frankfurt am Main 1578 - Rome 1610), artist