Jacob’s Dream

• Jacob’s Dream
• Jacob's Dream

SK-A-704

• signature: ‘A’
• signature (false): ‘F. van Mieris’

The Bible recounts how one night Jacob lay down on a stone to sleep. He dreamt that he saw a ladder reaching up to heaven with God’s angels going up and down. When he awoke, Jacob vowed to use the stone to build an altar in that place, which he called Bethel (‘House of God’). De Vois painted Jacob’s almost naked body as smooth as porcelain. The once green leaves have turned blue because the yellow pigment in them has disappeared over time.

C. van der Bas, 'The Muilman Collection: the progressive taste of an eighteenth-century banking family', Simiolus 32, nr. 2/3 (2006), p. 168

painter: Ary de Vois

1660 - 1680

olieverf op paneel

height 22 cm x width 29.5 cm

Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam

bequest 1880

Public domain

C. van der Bas, 'The Muilman Collection: the progressive taste of an eighteenth-century banking family', Simiolus 32, nr. 2/3 (2006), p. 168

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