# David Playing the Harp for King Saul [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOECKE, Jan van den]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 58 x 80 cm ## Commentary Initially Jan van den Hoecke painted in a style associated with that of Rubens's later work; he had in fact worked with him in the 1630s. His earliest work consists mainly of biblical pictures. Particularly worthy of mention are his oil sketches for Old Testament scenes probably intended as an integrated series. The present oil sketch belongs to this series. ## Related artworks - [Allegory on Archduke Leopold Wilhelm]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Entombment]() - [Equestrian Portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm]() - [Portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, as a Marshall]() - [The Four Elements]() - [The Triumph of David]() - [The Triumph of Saul]() - [Triumph of Time]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()