# Rebecca and Eleazer [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SOLIMENA, Francesco]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 202 x 150 cm ## Commentary Rebecca and Eleazer c. 1710 Oil on canvas, 202 x 150 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Francesco Solimena was greatly admired by the Venetian painters of the eighteenth century, especially by Piazzetta and the young Giambattista Tiepolo, for his vigorous naturalism, marked by bold chiaroscuro contrasts and by rich, intense colours, which were the result of the influence on the Neapolitan artist by Mattia Preti. Amongst the very finest examples of this period of Solimena's career is the canvas Rebecca and Eleazar, painted around 1710, together with Jacob and Rachel, for the Baglioni family of Rio Marin, Venice. A light which seems to be like a sudden flash of lightning makes the figures stand out with plastic presence. The compositional arrangement is a triangle, already typically eighteenth century in the elegant balancing of the links between the figures. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Reign]() - [Bathsheba Bathing]() - [Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Dido Receiving Aeneas and Cupid Disguised as Ascanius]() - [Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple]() - [Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple]() - [Fall of Simon Magus \(detail\)]() - [Fall of Simon Magus]() - [Frieze \(detail\)]() - [Frieze \(detail\)]() - [General view of the sacristy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()