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Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
Also titled Jacob worstelt met de engel
Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer, 1599–1657)
1639
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 48.7 cm x width 68 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Almost home, Jacob dreaded the reunion with his brother Esau on the other side of the river. He spent the night on the bank, struggling long and hard with an angel. Jacob finally won the match by daybreak. The angel blessed Jacob and gave him the honorary name of Israel: ‘he who wrestles with God.’ The rosy sky heralding the new day is aptly rendered.
