Jael and Sisera

Private collection

religious

Sisera was a cruel Canaanite leader who ruled the Israelites for twenty years. Barak defeated his nine hundred charioteers by a surprise Israelite attack. Sisera escaped and sought refuge in the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite.

About the Artist

Mateo Gallardo

1600 – 1667

Spanish painter. He worked in Madrid where he lived around the parish of San Sebastián, the Madrid "neighbourhood of artists." He worked in the late- Mannerist style practiced at the court in the first decades of the seventeenth century.

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