Daniel in the Lions' Den is a painting from around 1615 by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Daniel in the Lions' Den
Year	c.1614–1616
Medium	oil paint, canvas
Dimensions	224.2 cm (88.3 in) × 330.5 cm (130.1 in)
Location	National Gallery of Art
Identifiers	RKDimages ID: 28802
Website	www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.50298.html
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Provenance

The painting was a part of an exchange between the artist and Sir Dudley Carelton (the first Viscount Dorchester). Carelton presented it to King Charles I.

The painting was later owned by the Duke of Hamilton, and remained at Hamilton Palace in Scotland until 1882 when it was a part of the Hamilton Palace sale. At some point between 1882 and 1919, the painting was bought back by the Hamilton family only for the painting to be included in the final sale of Hamilton Palace in 1919. It was sold to 1st Viscount Cowdray in 1963, who then sold it to art dealer M. Knoedler. Knoedler sold it to the United States who passed it on to National Gallery of Art in 1965 where it now hangs.[1]

Subject

The subject is from the Book of Daniel, 6:1–28. Rubens modelled the lions on a Moroccan subspecies, examples of which were then in the Spanish governor's menagerie in Brussels. In 1618, he acquired more than a hundred pieces of classical sculpture, in exchange for this painting, eight others, and a sum of money.

The painting shows Daniel as a young man.[2] However, according to Biblical chronology, Daniel would have been over eighty years old at the time of the incident.[3]

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[fr] Daniel dans la fosse aux lions (Rubens)

[it] Daniele nella fossa dei leoni (Rubens)