1680_Jacobs_Dream_Boi.txt

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Ferdinand Bol 1616 – 1680
Jacob's Dream

oil on canvas (128 × 97 cm)
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

This work is linked to Genesis 28:12

An angel tells Jacob to return to the land of his father. Jacob had fled his land twenty years earlier because of a conflict with his brother Esau. Now the time had come to leave his treacherous uncle Laban, God's messenger tells Jacob.

Jacob left Laban taking his own herd and his wifes, Laban's daughters Lea and Rachel. Before he reached Canaan, Laban caught up with him.

Ferdinand Bol biography

Ferdinand Bol

1616 - 1680

North-Netherlandish painter and pupil of Rembrandt's around 1635.

Stylewise Bol sets out to follow in his tutor's footsteps, but later his style becomes more baroque. His production is quite varied and includes paintings on biblical themes. Bol is most famous for his portrait of Elisabeth Bas, on display at the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. Bol also makes several etchings.

Born in Dordrecht, Bol spent most of his life in Amsterdam, where he dies in 1680. This here is a self-portrait from approx 1667.