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Christ is seated to the right of a stone well, turned in profile to the left, speaking to a woman who stands beyond. The woman leans on the well and her water-jar, looking pensively downwards. Behind are other figures and buildings on a hill. Taken from John, IV: 7–26, this drawing depicts the scene in which Christ rests near Jacob’s well and asks a Samaritan woman for water. He proclaims, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.’ The woman of Samaria comes to understand throughout their conversation that Jesus is the living water and source of eternal life. Rembrandt and his followers revisited this subject many times in drawings, etchings and paintings.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Birmingham
Title
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Date
late 1640s
Medium
pen & brown ink on paper
Measurements
H 21 x W 19 cm
Accession number
40.6
Acquisition method
purchased, 1940
Work type
Drawing