The English Wikipedia article on the Brescian painter Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, which records that he completed Elijah Fed by the Raven by 1508 and that the painting is held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The subject depicts the biblical episode of the First Book of Kings in which the prophet Elijah, in hiding by the brook Cherith during a drought, is fed bread and meat brought to him by ravens at God's command. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Source Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Elijah Fed by the Raven (Wikipedia)
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