Jacob Jordaens. Jacob and Esau. 1650–1660. Flanders. Charcoal, pen and brown ink, and brush and brown washes, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on pieced cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on tan laid paper A leading figure in 17th-century Flemish art, Jacob Jordaens here depicted a pivotal moment in the biblical sibling rivalry of Jacob and Esau. We see the younger brother, Jacob, persuading the hungry Esau to sell his birthright in exchange for a bowl of stew. Jordaens’s exploratory approach to this Old Testament subject is especially
Jacob Jordaens. Jacob and Esau. 1650–1660. Flanders. Charcoal, pen and brown ink, and brush and brown washes, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on pieced cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on tan laid paper A leading figure in 17th-century Flemish art, Jacob Jordaens here depicted a pivotal moment in the biblical sibling rivalry of Jacob and Esau. We see the younger brother, Jacob, persuading the hungry Esau to sell his birthright in exchange for a bowl of stew. Jordaens’s exploratory approach to this Old Testament subject is especially evident in Esau’s right knee, where early attempts to situate the figure were abandoned and overridden with layers of additional media. Jordaens emphasized the tension of the moment by placing the brothers—together with their mother, Rebecca, two maids, and two dogs—in a shallow and compressed domestic interior.
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