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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Ruth was the great grandmother of David, and therefore an ancestor of Christ. In this work she is depicted as a young widow, gleaning a few ears of corn that she has gathered from the field of the wealthy farmer, Boaz. The Old Testament tells us that Ruth later marries Boaz. Charles Landelle was a very successful nineteenth-century painter, who not only won every prestigious award for painting in France, but also achieved great public popularity for his history, genre and oriental works. | Subjects: | religion (Ruth); figure; landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Landelle, Charles (French, 1821-1908) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8427... | Go to resource |
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