Saul and David

Year

c. 1645 and c. 1652

Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

130 x 164.5

Gallery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritshuis

Number

212

Commentary

The painting originally was considerable larger. A vertical strip, wide c. 20 cm is missing to the left of David’s harp. Along the bottom the painting was c. 18 cm larger. The top right square piece of canvas above David was replaced by a fragment of a seventeenth-century painting and overpainted