# The Arrogance of Rehoboam [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and brown ink and chalk, tinted with gray wash and watercolour, 225 x 383 mm ## Commentary The Arrogance of Rehoboam c. 1530 Pen and brown ink and chalk, tinted with gray wash and watercolour, 225 x 383 mm Kupferstichkabinett, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel For the paintings on the south wall of the Great Council Chamber, a program of Old Testament scenes was chosen, possibly as a reaction to the Reformation, which took root in Basel in 1529. The scene with Rehoboam provided the Council with the example of a bad ruler: Rehoboam, son of the wise king Solomon, drove the tribes of Israel to break with the House of David by refusing to moderate his excessively harsh regime. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus]() - [Charitas]() - [Charles Brandon]() - [Christ as the True Light]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan \(detail\)]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan]() - [Courtier of Henry VIII and his Wife]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()