Le Retour de Jacob (The Return of Jacob)
Sebastien Bourdon, French, 1616 - 1671
about 1632-1642
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 11 × 8 in. (27.9 × 20.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.964.186
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper right: Seb. Bourdon invenit et fecit / P. Mariette ex. cum privil. Regis; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Redit Iacob in patriam inscio socero Laban, / cum liberis, vxoribus, feruus, ac gregibus.; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: Iacob durant l'absence de son beau pere Laban, retourne en son / pais auec ses enfans ses femmes,ses seruiteurs, et ses troupeaux.
Provenance
Dr. David James, Miami, Florida; sold to present collection, 1964.
Catalogue Raisonne
R-D I.133.I iv(?); BN II.67.1 (lettered state not described
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