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Find Jacob, Laban and the daughters at lower left, follow the herd toward the trees, and look past them to the arches in the distance.
Born in Lorraine, Claude spent his career in Italy, and its landscape was the chief subject of his paintings, prints and drawings. Here a sunlit valley with a Roman aqueduct in the distance is the setting for a story from Genesis, in which Jacob offers Laban his flocks in return for the hand of Laban’s daughter Rachel. Claude signed and dated the drawing in Rome in 1661.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card · 20.1 × 30.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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- Museum title
- A Wooded River Landscape with Jacob, Laban, and His Daughters
- Artist
- Claude Lorrain French, 1600-1682
- Date
- 1661
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and black, brown and gray wash, and black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 30.2 cm (7 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.