David and Saul
Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King Saul. Many of Josephson’s other paintings from this era are similarly lyrical and realist in style. Oil on canvas.
Credits
Photo: Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.
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