Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Jacob's Dream - two very different versions


José de Ribera, 1639.
Jacques Réattu, 1792.

José de Ribera (January 12, 1591, Xàtiva, Spain – September 2, 1652, Naples), also known as Jusepe de Ribera or Giuseppe Ribera and called Lo Spagnoletto ("the Little Spaniard") by contemporaries and early writers, an important Tenebrist painter.  Though born in Spain, by the age of twenty he was living in Italy, where he remained for the rest of his life and where all his mature work was completed.

Jacques Réattu (August 3, 1760, Arles - April 7, 1833, Arles), French painter, winner of the prix de Rome in 1790.



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