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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.
When Jacob protested that his father would recognize the deception and curse him as soon as he felt him, since Esau was hairy and Jacob smooth-skinned, Rebecca said that the curse would be on her instead. Before she sent Jacob to his father, she dressed him in Esau's garments and laid goatskins on his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin.
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 ...
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]
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.".
Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph is an oil-on-canvas painting created ca. 1620 by the Italian Baroque artist Guercino, now in the National Gallery of Ireland. [1] It depicts the Biblical story of Jacob blessing his grandsons Manasseh and Ephraim , with the boys' father Joseph on the right protesting that the primary right-handed blessing has ...
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678 [1]) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. [1]
John Macarthur was born at Stoke Damerel near Plymouth, England in 1767.His exact date of birth is unknown, but his baptism was registered on 3 September 1767. [2] He was the second son of Alexander Macarthur, who had fled Scotland to the West Indies after the Jacobite rising of 1745 before returning to Plymouth to work as a linen draper and mercer.