An old man with a long, white beard and flowing, white hair sits surrounded by three young women in a gold-toned room in this horizontal painting. The people all have dark dots for eyes and touches of pink on the cheeks of their otherwise parchment-white skin. At the center of the composition, the man holds his arms out straight to his sides, lifted slightly above shoulder level, with his index fingers pointing and his middle fingers touching his thumbs to make a ring with each hand. He looks down to our right under bushy, furrowed brows, and his beard falls to his lap. His cream-white robe…
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Job and His Daughters

William Blake (British, 1757 - 1827)

1799/1800

Medium
pen and tempera on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 27.3 x 38.4 cm (10 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.) ; framed: 40.6 x 51.4 cm (16 x 20 1/4 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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