# The Young David Gathering Stones for his Slingshot [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FETTI, Domenico]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 110 x 82 cm ## Commentary The young shepherd David, future King and author of the Psalms, gathers some stones before the momentous combat that will change his life and that of his fellow-Israelites. Although the Biblical narrative \(I Samuel, chapter 18\) does describe him preparing his slingshot before defeating the Philistine Goliath, the episode is extremely rarely represented in art, compared with the "Victorious David", a subject Fetti himself painted multiple times. ## Related artworks - [David \(detail\)]() - [David]() - [David with the Head of Goliath]() - [Ecce Homo]() - [Flight to Egypt]() - [Hero and Leander]() - [Margherita Gonzaga Receiving the Model of the Church of St Ursula \(detail\)]() - [Margherita Gonzaga Receiving the Model of the Church of St Ursula]() - [Melancholy \(detail\)]() - [Melancholy]() - [Melancholy]() - [Moses before the Burning Bush]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()