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The Sacrifice of Isaac

Jacob Jordaens

This picture, purchased from the painter’s heirs in The Hague in 1734, was transferred to the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, where it was requisitioned by the French as a Rubens and taken to the Louvre. It came to the Brera as part of an exchange, and was correctly identified here as a work by Jordaens. There is some dispute over its date, but the artist’s use of sober blues and browns, akin to those used in other works of the period, suggests that it is likely to have been painted in 1625 or 1626.

Download hi-res image TITLE The Sacrifice of Isaac
AUTHOR Jacob Jordaens
DATE 1625 - 6
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS cm 242 x 155
INVENTORY 79
ROOM XXXI
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