# Jacob Receives Isaac's Blessing [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RIBERA, Jusepe de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 110 x 292 cm ## Commentary This painting narrates an event from chapter 27 of Genesis, in which Jacob tricks his father, Isaac, in order to obtain the blessing that should rightfully go to his older brother, Esau. Jacob’s mother, Rebecca, helps him dress in Esau’s clothes and cover his arm with a sheepskin that resembles his brother’s abundant body hair. He then takes food to his elderly, blind father, Isaac, thus inducing him to confuse him with Esau. This was a very common subject among 17th-century Italian painters, but was rarely depicted in Spain. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [An Old Money-Lender]() - [Apollo and Marsyas]() - [Apollo Flaying Marsyas]() - [Aristotle]() - [Clubfooted Boy]() - [Democritus \(Archimedes\)]() - [Denial of Saint Peter]() - [Diogenes]() - [Hercules at Rest]() - [Holy Trinity]() - [Ixion]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()