Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

SK-A-1724

signature and date, in ligated monogram, lower right: ‘BB.f.Aº1639’

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.

W. Stechow, Jahrbuch Berlin 1930, p. 135

painter: Bartholomeus Breenbergh (signed by artist)

1639

olieverf op paneel

height 48.7 cm x width 68 cm

purchase 1898-01

Public domain

...; sale, M. du C[harteaux], Paris (P. Remy, J.A. Lebrun), 2 May 1791 _sqq_., no. 35 (`Un paysage orné de deux figures sur le devant, représentant le combat mystérieux de l´Ange avec Jacob. Hauteur, 18 pouces; largeur, 24 pouces.[48.7 x 65 cm]B[ois]´), 30 livres 4, to the dealer Sollier for Charles Pierre Savalette de Magnanville;{Copy British Museum; letter B.B. Fredericksen, 11 February 2003, RMA.}...; from the dealer J.E. Goedhart, Amsterdam, fl. 150, to the museum, January 1898

• W. Stechow, Jahrbuch Berlin 1930, p. 135
• Documentatiemap SK
• Kunstschrift 6 (2000), p. 44
• Verslagen omtrent 's Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis en Kunst XII ( 1889), 's Gravenhage 1891, p. 9

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