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Description: | The painting shows the Old Testament story of the meeting of the patriarch Jacob and his future wife Rachel, as told in Genesis 29. 9-10. On the left, Jacob lifts a stone slab to unblock the well so that Rachel's sheep can drink. Next to him, Rachel is depicted holding a shepherdess's staff. The style of this painting shows the influence of seventeenth-century Roman and Bolognese classicising painters. The previous attribution to Castiglione should be rejected, since the painting is not Genoese and seems to be the work of a later, less skilled artist. | Subjects: | sheep); figure; religion (Jacob and Rachel) animal (camel | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian (Venetian) School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto (Italian painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1609-1664) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8540... | Go to resource |
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