The halt and the blind being summoned to the great supper. Oil painting by Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot.
- Droochsloot, Joost Cornelisz, 1586-1666.
- Date:
- 1620-1629
- Reference:
- 45078i
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This painting shows Christ's parable of the great supper (Luke chapter 14), in which the lame and the blind are invited to a rich man's supper in place of others who had declined his invitation. The parable illustrates the lesson that "whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted"
Publication/Creation
1620-1629
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 110.5 x 193.5 cm
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Reference
Wellcome Collection 45078i
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Joost Cornelis Droochsloot, with his son Cornelis, produced small paintings of peasant life on an almost industrial scale in Utrecht in the first half of the 17th century, for domestic interiors. Occasionally however they produced larger pictures on charitable and moralistic themes, such as this one, suitable for the corridors, refectories and mantelpieces of hospitals and asylums. Joost Cornelis was himself a regent (governor) of St Job’s hospital in Utrecht and painted pictures both for that hospital and for the St. Barbara and St Laurence hospital in the city
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