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Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
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This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works. The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a sermon based on a passage from the Bible. Genesis (32:22-32) relates the story of Jacob, who, after fording the river Jabbok with his family, spent a whole night wrestling with a mysterious angel. In a letter the artist wrote to Van Gogh he said 'For me the landscape and the fight only exist in the imagination of the people praying after the sermon.'
Title: Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
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This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works.
The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a sermon based on a passage from the Bible.
Genesis (32:22-32) relates the story of Jacob, who, after fording the river Jabbok with his family, spent a whole night wrestling with a mysterious angel.
In a letter the artist wrote to Van Gogh he said 'For me the landscape and the fight only exist in the imagination of the people praying after the sermon.
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X-Radiograph Description: X-Radiograph (32 sheets)
X-Radiograph Settings: Kodak M-1; 50 kv, 5 ma, 3 min., 100" from tube
Burroughs Number: 4625
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