Mattathias opposing a Heathen Sacrifice
Ze'ev Raban
(Israeli (born in Poland), 1890–1970)
1941
Medium/TechniqueGouache over pencil on paper
DimensionsH: 25 cm; W: 31 cm
Credit LineCharles and Lynn Schusterman Collection
Accession number2013.997
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Not on viewClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsAnd Matthias answered and said in a loud voice: If all the nations that are in the house of the king’s dominion hearken unto him, to fall away each one from the worship of his fathers, and have made choice to follow his commandments, / yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.
( Cambridge Bible, Chapter 2 verses 19-20)
ProvenanceBy 1982, Irving J. Abramowitz, Baltimore. April 24, 1997, anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, lot 62, to Charles and Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa; 2013, gift of Lynn Schusterman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)
