# Eliezer and Rebecca [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRAY, Salomon de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pen in brown, brush, grey wash, 86 x 145 mm ## Commentary Salamon de Bray's painting of Eliezer and Rebecca is related to two, precisely dated preparatory drawings from November 1659. The first sketch of 9 November 1559 shows Rebecca and Eliezer standing at a well on the slope of a mountain, as we see them in the final painting. However, the positions of the camels and the landscape are reversed as compared with the painting. The drawing suggests that De Bray initially intended to illustrate a slightly later episode from the narrative, as Eliezer appears to be holding jewellery in his hand and Rebecca points to the city as if showing him where she lives. ## Related artworks - [Book and Picture Shop]() - [Design for sculpture]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Jael, Deborah and Barak]() - [Joseph Receives His Father and Brothers in Egypt]() - [Judith Delivering the Head of Holofernes]() - [Madonna with Angels and Shepherds]() - [Odysseus and Circe]() - [The Twins Clara and Aelbert de Bray]() - [Triumphal Procession with Musicians]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()