The Meeting of Jacob and Rebecca, and Isaac Blessing Jacob from The Story of Jacob
Workshop of Jan van Tieghem · 1560/68
Provenance
Ownership history
- Elmer E. Tolman (died 1954), Lake Forest, Ill., by 1923; sold, with Tolman’s house and its contents, to
- Theodore W. Robinson (died 1948), 1925; by descent to his son, Sanger Robinson (died 1979); given to the Art Institute, 1953.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.
Literature
Published references
- “A Home in Which Design and Material are Blended,” Arts and Decoration 19,1 (May 1923): 14 (ill.).
- Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 108-113, cat. 13 (ill.).
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