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Title: Joseph’s Coat
Brought to Jacob
Artist: _ Rembrandt
Category: Old Master
Medium: Etching
Framed: Yes
Height: 4 1/4"
Width: 3 1/4"
c. 1633. Bartsch's second and final state; Usticke's third state of four. A
fine impression, probably issued by J.M. Creery in “A Collection of 200
Original Etchings,” London, 1816. Signed in the plate lower right
Rembrandt/van.Ryn-fe.
Joseph was seized by his brothers and sold to some merchants as a slave.
They then dipped his coat in the blood of a kid, and brought it to their
father, telling him that they had found it that way in the desert. Jacob
could only conclude that Joseph had been devoured by wild beasts. He fell
into an inconsolable depression (Genesis 37:31-34). |
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