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Isaac Blessing Jacob
Also titled Isaak zegent Jakob
Govert Flinck (Cleves, 1615–1660)
c. 1638
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 141 cm x width 165.5 cm x depth 10 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
The Bible recounts how Jacob, pretending to be his brother Esau, tricked their blind father into bestowing Esau’s rightful blessing on him. The idea of imitating Esau’s hirsute arms by wearing animal-skin gloves came from their mother Rebecca, who looks on from behind the bed. Flinck derived both this painting technique and narrative style from Rembrandt, by whom he was trained.
