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Daniel in the Lions' Den
is a 1615 painting by the Flemish artist
Peter Paul Rubens
, now in the
National Gallery of Art
in
Washington DC
. Based on
Daniel 6:1–28
, it depicts the Biblical figure
Daniel
trapped
in a den of lions
by King
Darius the Mede
. Rubens modelled the lions on a Moroccan species, examples of which were then in the Spanish governor's menagerie in
Brussels
.
Painting:
Peter Paul Rubens
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