David with the head of Goliath Residenzgalerie Salzburg (in memoriam Roman Szalay - Donated by Anna Szalay)
David with the head of Goliath
Residenzgalerie Salzburg (in memoriam Roman Szalay - Donated by Anna Szalay)
c 1841
Oil/canvas
Picture size 94.30 x 84.30 cm
Framesize 122.50 x 106.50 x 8.00 cm
Framesize 122.50 x 106.50 x 8.00 cm
675
Currently not in the exhibition
Austria 19th century
© Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Illustration Fotostudio Ulrich Ghezzi, Oberalm
His opponent's sword in his left hand, David turns his naked back to the viewer, but looks back in three-quarter profile, his right hand supporting his chin. Under his elbow, at the end of the diagonal, lies the severed head of the gigantic Philistine Goliath (OT, 1 Samuel 17). David had stunned the giant with a stone from his sling, then decapitated him with his own sword. The spotted hide refers to David as a shepherd protecting his sheep from wild beasts.
Object description on the occasion of the press presentation
“in memoriam Roman Szalay - Donation by Anna Szalay”
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