Ruth Swearing her Allegiance to Naomi
by VICTORS, Jan, Oil on canvas, 109 x 137 cm
The subject is taken from the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament. Naomi of Bethlehem was the Moabite Ruth’s mother-in-law.
The painting is a pendant to a painting in the Muzeum £azienki Kr�lewskie, Warsaw. It is signed and dated top right: J . Victors / 1653.