Rebecca at the Well

religious

The biblical story depicted in the painting is the following. The patriarch Abraham, wishing to find a wife for her son Isaac, sent his servant Eliezer, to look for a suitable bride amaong his own kindred in Mesopotamia, rather than among the people of Canaan where he dwelt. When the servant reached the city of Nahor in Chaldea he prayed for guidance, asking that whoever gave him and his camels water at the well would be an eligible woman.

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About the Artist

Sebastiano Galeotti

1676 – 1746

Italian painter. He was a pupil of the painters Alessandro Gherardini, Felice Torelli, and Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. He spent more than the last three decades of his life as a most successful fresco painter in Liguria, Lombardy, and Piedmont, practicing his truly international art. He collaborated with Giovanni Domenico Ferretti or Francesco Natali (died 1723) of Cremona in some projects. He worked with Natali in the Oratory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Parma. He helped decorate with frescoes the rooms of the Farnese Rocca in Sala Baganza. He decorated the church of the Magdalen in Genoa. In Turin, he was appointed director of the Academy, the precursor of the Accademia Albertina. In Mondovi he worked for the House of Savoy. His son Giuseppe Galeotti (1708-1778) was active in Liguria as a painter.

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