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The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
c. 1626 · oil on panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Loaves pass from one pair of hands to another, and the man receiving them is still in armour. Abraham leans in, spears and helmets at his back; Melchizedek, wreathed and robed in gold, holds out the bread, and at his feet men heave great vessels up the step. Putti hold back a fringed hanging above them all. The National Gallery of Art reads the offering as the Eucharist prefigured, and the two men locking eyes as each sensing it means more than food; the Canon of the Mass names Melchizedek high priest beside Abraham's sacrifice. Rubens made this modello for the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, and weavers turned the design into wool for her convent in Madrid. The tapestries hung in the church at Corpus Christi, Alexandra Libby writes, the king in his tribune and the Poor Clares behind a grille. The bread is in both men's hands.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, object record 1958.4.1 · Alexandra Libby, "The Solomonic Ambitions of Isabel Clara Eugenia in Rubens's The Triumph of the Eucharist Tapestry Series," JHNA vol. 7, no. 2 (2015) · Museo Nacional del Prado, exhibition materials on the same tapestry cycle · Roman Missal, Ordinary of the Mass, Canon Missae, 'Supra quae propitio'
But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,
Genesis 14:18 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)