Job hears the bad news of four messengers, Harmen Jansz Muller, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1643 - 1646 print Job hears from four messengers about the disaster that happened to him. Behind him is his wife, who holds her handkerchief in front of her face. In the landscape you can see how jobs cattle and camels are stolen, how lightning touches its shepherds and cattle and how the house in which the children of Job held a party, collapses in the storm. Print is part of a series about the eight Baves of Christ and illustrates the blessing: Blessed are the poor in Spirit. On the stairs a stone w
Job hears the bad news of four messengers, Harmen Jansz Muller, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1643 - 1646 print Job hears from four messengers about the disaster that happened to him. Behind him is his wife, who holds her handkerchief in front of her face. In the landscape you can see how jobs cattle and camels are stolen, how lightning touches its shepherds and cattle and how the house in which the children of Job held a party, collapses in the storm. Print is part of a series about the eight Baves of Christ and illustrates the blessing: Blessed are the poor in Spirit. On the stairs a stone with this text from matt. 5: 3 in Latin. At the bottom of the margin a verse in Latin over the blessing. Amsterdam paper engraving messengers present themselves to Job, each reporting a new disaster. blessed are the poor in spirit
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