Death of Antiochus After His Fall

Noël Hallé French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690

During the years Saint-Aubin competed for the Prix de Rome, students were encouraged to learn printmaking by etching their own compositions. This print takes as its model the painting he submitted to a special competition in 1753, today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The story appears in the Book of Genesis (24:31), in the Old Testament. After Laban refused to grant his son-in-law Jacob his earnings, Jacob’s wife Rachel—Laban’s daughter—stole her father’s household gods and hid them by sitting on a trunk.

Death of Antiochus After His Fall, Noël Hallé (French, Paris 1711–1781 Paris), Etching

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