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The painting represents what is described in Genesis (27, 1-29), when Jacob, helped by his mother Rebekah, deceives his blind father Isaac to receive the blessing meant for his older brother, Esau. To carry out the deception, Jacob covers one arm with a sheepskin, imitating the hairy arms of his brother.
The painting shows 10 persons seated in a garden around a table. Jordaens himself is on the left playing the lute. Jordaens' father, a merchant in canvases, is to his left holding a glass of wine in his hand. Next to him are Jordaens' sisters Magdalena and Anna. Then follows his mother Barbara van Wolschaten holding her daughter Elisabeth on ...
Painting by John Paul portraying a bay stallion Greenwich Hospital by John Paul, 1835. John Paul (1804–1887) was an English painter. Biography
The Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob (1624) by Rubens. The Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob is a 1624 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Originally in the Spanish royal collection, it was sent to Germany by Maria Anna of Neuburg (wife of Charles II of Spain) to her brother Johann Wilhelm. It is now in the Staatsgalerie Schleissheim near Munich. [1] [2]
Isaac Blessing Jacob is a 1642 religious painting by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. It shows Jacob kneeling at the bed of his blind father Isaac under the watchful eye of his mother Rebecca as he receives his brother Esau's blessing. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]
The painting which had been lost or misattributed for over 200 years was rediscovered in 1987 and in 1998 sold for $5.5 million US. The work then became part of the Fisch-Davidson collection of Baroque paintings and in turn was sold in February 2023 during Sotheby's Old Masters sale for $26.9 million the third highest ever price for a work by ...
Asenath was the daughter of an Egyptian priest. According to chapter 41 in the book of Genesis, she was given to Joseph by the pharaoh, himself.The purpose of adding Asenath to the painting is because it having been commissioned by the Amsterdam patrician Willem Schrijver, It shows him with his wife Wendela de Graeff and their children as biblical figures.".
Geertgen tot Sint Jans – The Legend of the Relics of St. John the Baptist Of the paintings mentioned by Van Mander, the only one to survive is one wing of his triptych for an altar of the Knights of St. John at Haarlem, the two sides of which were sawn apart in about 1600, and are now in Vienna as The Legend of the Relics of St. John the Baptist, and the Lamentation of Jesus.