# Jephtha's Daughter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOULLOGNE, Bon]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 154 x 218 cm ## Commentary Jephthah was a great Old Testament \(Judges 11:30-40\) warrior, who was called upon to lead the Israelites in their war against the Ammonites. On the eve of the battle he made a pact with God, that, in return for victory, he would sacrifice 'the first creature that comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return'. The battle won, 'who should come out to meet him with tambourines and dances but his daughter, and she only a child'. ## Related artworks - [Hippomenes and Atalanta]() - [St Nicholas Resuscitates the Children]() - [Triumph of Aphrodite]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()