# Esau Selling His Birthright [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TERBRUGGHEN, Hendrick]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 107 x 139 cm ## Commentary Esau Selling His Birthright c. 1627 Oil on canvas, 107 x 139 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This Caravaggesque painting depicts the moment when Esau returns home tired and hungry after a day in the fields. There he finds his brother Jacob eating a stew. Through hunger and exhaustion he accepts Jacob's proposal that he should sell him his birthright in exchange for the lentil stew. The two brothers are placed in the foreground on either side of the plate of stew, while behind them are their parents, Sarah and Isaac. ## Related artworks - [A Laughing Bravo with a Bass Viol and a Glass]() - [Bagpipe Player]() - [Boy Lighting a Pipe from a Candle]() - [Boy Playing a Fife]() - [Boy Playing a Recorder]() - [Christ Crowned with Thorns]() - [Democritus]() - [Duet]() - [Esau Selling His Birthright]() - [Girl Holding a Tankard and a Glass]() - [Heraclitus]() - [Jacob Reproaching Laban]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()