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Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph

Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph

Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1659–1722)
Artist/Maker (Dutch, 1681–1759)
Date1712–28
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsOverall: 24 1/8 × 18 11/16 in. (61.3 × 47.5 cm)
Frame: 29 9/16 × 24 7/16 × 2 in. (75.1 × 62.1 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineMrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund
Object number1963.30
Status
Not on view
Provenance(Sale Hoogeveen et al., Amsterdam (Van der Linden and de Winter), 5 June 1765, lot 5); purchase by de Winter with pendant, lot 6; (possible sale (with pendant), Mettra, Paris, 1767, for 10,530 livres); Bildergalerie, Sansoucci, Potsdam, by 1770 (with pendant); Königliche Museum, later the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, ca. 1837-1906 (with pendant); returned (with pendant) to the Princes of Hohenzollern, 1906-1925. Private Collection, London. (Sale, Christie's, London, 24 May 1963, lot 153); purchased 1963 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10, 1973 - September 2, 1973 )
The Bible Through Dutch Eyes
  • Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI (April 9, 1976 - May 23, 1976 )
The Eye of Thomas Jefferson
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (June 3, 1976 - September 6, 1976 )
Gods, Saints and Hereos: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (November 2, 1980 - January 4, 1981 )
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (February 16, 1981 - April 19, 1981 )
  • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (May 18, 1981 - July 19, 1981 )
From Baroque to Neoclassicism: European Paintings, 1625-1825
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
Collections
  • European
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