Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1639

Identification

Title(s)

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-1724

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

Jacob worstelt met de engel. Langs de weg liggen Jacobs mantel en staf, rechts in de verte een stad.

Creation

Artist

painter: Bartholomeus Breenbergh (signed by artist)

Dating

1639

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Technique

painting

Measurements

support: height 48.7 cm × width 68 cm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Jan-1898

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; 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

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 87, 88
Liefde, list en lijden : historiestukken in het Mauritshuis, Ben P.J. Broos, p. 72
Rembrandt's Holland, Rivka Weiss-Blok, Martin Weyl
Het oude testament in de schilderkunst van de gouden eeuw, Jacqueline Boonen, Christian Tümpel, cat.nr. 13
Bartholomeus Breenbergh : the paintings, Marcel Roethlisberger, cat.nr. 197
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 143
Kunstschrift 6 (2000), p. 44
W. Stechow, Jahrbuch Berlin 1930, p. 135
Verslagen omtrent 's Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis en Kunst XII ( 1889), 's Gravenhage 1891, p. 9
Documentatiemap SK

Persistent URL

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