Netherlands: ‘Isaac Blessing Jacob’. Oil on canvas painting by Govert Flinck (25 January 1615 - 2 February 1660), 1638. In a famous scene from the Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, Isaac, the only son of Abraham and Sarah, blesses his younger son Jacob from his deathbed. Now Isaac is old and blind, and thinks he is blessing his elder son, Esau. Jacob has covered his hands in goatskin in imitation of his hirsute brother Esau to trick his father. Jacob’s mother, Rebecca, looks on anxiously. She is an accomplice to Jacob’s scheme.

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