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The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau

A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer.

Date:

1581

Artist:

Maerten de Vos
Flemish, 1532–1603

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Maarten de Vos

Title

The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau

Place

Flanders (Artist's nationality:)

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1581

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer

Inscriptions

Signed and dated lower left, in pen and brown ink: "D VOS E 1581"

Dimensions

21.2 × 19.5 cm (8 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Fund

Reference Number

2015.207

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