Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (10.1969)

5. Lucas van Leyden (?), the Triumph of David, a private collection
(after Wolter)

Shc is the only blond gir], the hair of the other girls having a definitely reddish tone like the true
of David and that, a little darker, of Goliath. On the very left of the picture is standing the main
hero of the scenę, a young lad in a white-greyish robe, grasping in both hands a blood
stained sword with a supernatural sized bearded gianfs head on its point. The background:
the sky, earth and a road lined with bushes have been treated in an agreed way ih grey
and brown tones. That is why the vivid red of the dresses, particularly that of Michol domina-
tes the picture.

This scenę is connected with the victory of David over Goliath, connected but not illustrating
the very event — the defeat of the huge Philistine by the youngest son of Jesse. The scenę com-
posed in variance with its literary source shows simultaneously two different stages in David's
career. After killing Goliath, David returned tp his father to Bethlęęm Jęaying in Jerusalem the

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