# The Seven Acts of Mercy

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FRANCKEN, Frans II](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Tempera on oak panel, 39 x 60 cm

## Commentary

This subject was frequently represented in seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch paintings. The Utrecht painter Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot was a specialist in this genre.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels, 25 October 1555,](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/allegory-on-the-abdication-of-emperor-charles-v-in-brussels-25-october-1555-r1710748ee3f45a>)
- [An Antique Dealer&#39;s Gallery](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/an-antique-dealers-gallery-r5e47896bd9c4d5>)
- [Arcadia: a Pastoral Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/arcadia-a-pastoral-landscape-r73dff4c622e269>)
- [Art Room \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/art-room-detail-r8b63c91903eb83>)
- [Art Room](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/art-room-rab0f2c518aa20b>)
- [Ballroom Scene at a Court in Brussels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/ballroom-scene-at-a-court-in-brussels-r342c48c2a0230f>)
- [Christ in the Garden of Olives](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/christ-in-the-garden-of-olives-rb27ab6ba96ae7c>)
- [Croesus Showing his Riches to Solon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/croesus-showing-his-riches-to-solon-r740ffd7a86e033>)
- [Crucifixion of St Andrew](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/crucifixion-of-st-andrew-rf05d5f2b0afdc8>)
- [Feast of Esther](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/feast-of-esther-r9af85de03c2fbd>)
- [Sebastiaan Leerse in his Gallery](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/sebastiaan-leerse-in-his-gallery-r64463f6ae37e6b>)
- [Supper at the House of Burgomaster Rockox](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/francken-frans-ii-r7a94d0b744e238/supper-at-the-house-of-burgomaster-rockox-r2ea1a416484162>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)