''Jacob's Dream'' ( es, El sueño de Jacob) is a 1639 oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish
Tenebrist painter
José de Ribera
Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) was a painter and printmaker, who along with Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artists of Spanish Baroque painting. Referring ...
(''Lo Spagnoletto'').
Description
It measures and is in the
Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Analysis
Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. J ...
appears as a shepherd sleeping, resting on his left shoulder with a tree behind him. In the background on the other side is
the ladder that he sees in his dream. It is not a wooden ladder but a ladder of light, by which
angel
In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God.
Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles inclu ...
s are ascending and descending.
References
El sueño de Jacob El Prado
''Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652 '' Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 18-Nov. 29, 1992, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see pages: 135–137).
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Paintings by Jusepe de Ribera
Angels in art
Paintings depicting Jacob
1639 paintings
Jacob