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Daniel in the Lions' Den

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Original The painting has an interesting history: – Sir Dudley Carleton, 1st viscount Dorchester, English Ambassador to The Hague acquired the painting in 1618 from Rubens in an exchange for antique sculpture; he presented it to Charles I, King of England. Between c. 1625 and 1632 the painting hung in the Bear Gallery at Whitehall; then it was purchased by James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton,- and it was on display at the Hamilton Palace in Scotland, and owned by several generations of Hamiltons. Later it was owned by 3 viscounts Cowdray - and sold 13 December 1965 to NGA.

Reason

Rubens, Dutch painter, (1577 – 1640) is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all times. This is a fairly early work, depicting the profet Daniel in the lion's den, painted 1615.
The prophet Daniel is thrown into the den of the lions by the Persian king, Darius, due to the persian noblemen and ministers conspirations. But the lions didn't attacked the prophet, because the Lord send his angel to close the lions gap: My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt, as Daniel said. Daniel appears in the middle of eight lions. The lions are well executed, they are standing, lying or sittig in different positions around the prophet; and they reflect different moods, from indifferent to the fierce, hungry and irritable. _{Have in mind that we can find great amounts of hopeless lion depictions in the art history - like this, for example ->File:Albrecht Altdorfer 003.jpg ; - File:Albrecht Dürer 012.jpg; - File:Adam Elsheimer - Der heilige Hieronymus in der Wildnis.jpg, - File:Hans Schäufelein Der Heilige Hieronymus.JPG- and File:Teniers the Younger Daniel.jpg...}

Articles in which this image appears

Daniel in the lions' den, Daniel

FP category for this image

Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 21:10, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Nice find. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:06, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
• Support Looks good to me. Samsara (FA • FP) 09:48, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
• Support Good enough, saw the reproduction before in a Rubens album. Brandmeister^talk 11:22, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
• Support SagaciousPhil - Chat 13:47, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Sir Peter Paul Rubens - Daniel in the Lions' Den - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)