"When you were David and I was Saul."

"When you were David and I was Saul."
"When you were David and I was Saul."

"When you were David and I was Saul."

Date1904
Artist (American artist, cartoonist, and writer 1874–1944)
Illustration CitationThe Loves of Edwy by Rose Cecil O'Neill (Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston, 1904)
MediumGouache and pastel on paper mounted on board
Dimensionssheet: 15 5/8 × 22 1/8 in. (39.7 × 56.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Rose O'Neill Foundation, 2018
Object number2018-70
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this scene, the man at the piano has broken the news to his seated friend that he has had an affair with the man's wife. As they contemplate the situation, the aggrieved husband asks his friend to play for him, recalling their childhood custom. The reference is to Biblical characters: the king Saul and David, who played the lyre to calm him.
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