Isaac Blessing Jacob (Matthias Stom)

Isaac Blessing Jacob is a c.1635 oil on canvas painting by Matthias Stom, produced whilst the artist was on Sicily.^[1] It is now in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, which purchased it in 1994.^[2] The sniffing dog indicates the work can also be read as an allegory of the five senses.

The work was exhibited at a 1999-2000 exhibition, the first retrospective on the artist.^[3]

References[]

^ "Don't miss this master". The Daily Telegraph. 1999-11-17. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
^ "Catalogue entry".
^ "CODART entry".

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[1] "Don't miss this master". The Daily Telegraph. 1999-11-17. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2020-06-08.

[2] "Catalogue entry".

[3] "CODART entry".

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