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Jacob Wrestling with Angel
Presented by Sir Charles Holmes 1922
actions: expressive
adults
angel
Bible: Old Testament
fighting
Genesis, chapter 32
Jacob
landscape
man
people
religion and belief
rocky
universal religious imagery
paper unique ink watercolour
10 April 2018 – 23 July 2018
2018-07-23
10 April 2018 – 23 July 2018
2018-07-23
2018-04-10
Musée National Eugène-Delacroix (Paris, France)
2018-04-10
Delacroix - La lutte de Jacob et l'Ange
Loan-out
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
support: 254 × 289 mm
Presented by Sir Charles Holmes 1922
<p><b>N03607</b> JACOB WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL 1894 or 1904</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘W S 1894 [?]’ b.l.
<br/>Pen and watercolour (sight) 10×11 3/8 (25·25×28·25).
<br/>Presented by Sir Charles Holmes 1922.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Dutch Gallery, October 1904 (1).</p>
<p>The date has at some time been cut in half laterally and is now difficult to decipher. The 1929 Tate Gallery catalogue gives ‘1894’ as the date, but an alternative reading could be ‘1904’.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-07-16T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults angel Bible: Old Testament fighting Genesis, chapter 32 Jacob landscape man people religion and belief rocky universal religious imagery