Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph

Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph is a 1656 oil painting by Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel, Germany. It is said to have almost "a sculptural surface with a translucent glaze over paint".

The painting was commissioned by the Amsterdam patrician Willem Schrijver, and according to the Rembrandt scholar Gary Schwartz includes portraits of his family, as the biblical characters. Jacob is his father Petrus Scriverius, the Latinised form of Peter Schrijver (1576–1660), an important Dutch scholar who had gone blind by 1650. Joseph is the commissioner Willem Schrijver, and his young sons are two of his sons. The subject in art does not usually include the minor biblical figure of Joseph's wife Asenath, but adding her allowed a portrait of Willem's wife Wendela de Graeff. The portrait historié ("historicized portrait") was used by some Dutch Go…

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