The King's Sons Shooting at Their Father's Corpse 1500 - 1600

This anonymous 16th-century drawing depicts a scene from the biblical story of the sons of King Saul. The artwork shows the three sons of Saul shooting arrows at their father’s corpse, an act of cruelty and disrespect, as King Saul was their father. This drawing, titled "The King's Sons Shooting at Their Father's Corpse", was crafted sometime between 1500 and 1600, and now resides in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The detail of the figures and the emphasis on the action of the scene are hallmarks of the drawing's Northern Renaissance style.