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Flemish School, Nebuchadnezzar Eating Grass
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- Nebuchadnezzar Eating Grass
- Date
- ? 17th century
- Location
- Private Apartments
- Medium and support
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 142 cm, Overall width: 180 cm
- Artist
- Flemish School
- Catalogue Number
- DN108
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, p. 221
Description
The subject of the painting of the Babylonian king, Nebachudnezzar, eating grass is taken from the Old Testament Book of Daniel 4:33:
In the late nineteenth century Cole noted it hanging over the mantelpiece in the Tiger Room on the first floor. The identity and nationality of the artist is unknown, although it is probably Flemish, seventeenth century.