Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba (Beersheba) in the Desert South of Hebron

Charles de Coubertin French

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References to the wells of Abraham, as they are commonly known, are found in Genesis (21:23–24 and 26:23–33). Coubertin typically painted religious subjects, but in this picture he depicted the site as a scene of contemporary life. This painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1850–51.

Halt of Caravans at the Wells of Saba (Beersheba) in the Desert South of Hebron, Charles de Coubertin (French, 1822–1908), Oil on canvas

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