# Rachel

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LEFEBVRE, Jules-Joseph](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lefebvre-jules-joseph-r4bc9a01b48eabe>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on panel, 57 x 29 cm

## Commentary

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre is best known as a romantic allegorical painter who specialized in genre scenes, portraits, and nudes. Elegant young women were his preferred subject throughout his long and distinguished career. The present work presents a beautiful young woman as the biblical figure Rachel, the wife of Jacob who was renowned for her beauty.

## Related artworks

- [Springtime](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lefebvre-jules-joseph-r4bc9a01b48eabe/springtime-r79dc6b071be777>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)