![David Teniers the Younger - Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter [c.1645-47] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tnGyFOIPKvHcuQPu-2O0BgdlRn2-WDZA0_7BV-WWdhKw9R1p6Z51b_LAJaNjhOMNfJ3mOaFZqPu3c5ljZ4SCb7jvKoHdeFrOVnqyl01TxW_024yWHMHG8uhH8YcFtEWA=s0-d)
David Teniers the Younger - Guardroom with the Deliverance of Saint Peter [c.1645-47], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
Teniers's talents as a still life painter, observer of folksy figures, and popular moralist are amply evident in this panel of about 1645–47. By placing Saint Peter in prison in the background of a modern guardroom scene, the artist makes a pointed comparison between everyday life in his own time and in that of Herod.
[Oil on wood, 55.2 x 75.9 cm]
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