Elias am Bache Krith
1883
not on displayEugen Bracht1842 Morges – 1921 Darmstadt
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The prophet Elijah promised King Ahab a drought of one year, and God commanded him: 'Hide by the brook Krith, which flows east of the Jordan. You can drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.' But this brook also dried up (1 Kings XVII, 1-7).
Bracht travelled to Palestine in 1880/81 and strove for topographical accuracy in his depictions of biblical stories. A variant of this painting, with the figure of Elijah closer to the ravens, is illustrated in Max Osborn: Eugen Bracht (Bielefeld/Leipzig 1909) p. 36 (text p. 56).
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 121 x 201 cm
Inventory number
1947/0001
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Bequest of Mrs. Mathilde Vogel, 1947