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Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (Guercino)

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on the right protesting that the primary right-handed blessing has been given to the second-born (Ephraim) not first-born (Manasseh) son.
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but after his imprisonment and exile five years later it was sold on again. A copy made sometime before 1808 is now held by the
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The earliest surviving sketch for it is a 1615–1625 pen-and-brown-ink study with washes in the
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Its fate for the next seventy years is unknown, but it was found again in Paris in 1932 by
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in Suffolk. By 1843 the original work had reached the collection of
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An Introduction to Guercino's Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
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is an oil-on-canvas painting created ca. 1620 by the Italian
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Baroque
Guercino
National Gallery of Ireland
Jacob
Manasseh
Ephraim
Joseph
Art Institute Chicago
Jacopo Serra
papal legate
Ferrara
Giulio Sacchetti
Diego Velázquez
Juan Alfonso Enriquez de Cabrera
Pope Innocent X
Manuel Godoy
National Trust
Ickworth House
John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick
Hermann Voss
Denis Mahon
Getty Museum



"An Introduction to Guercino's Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph"
"Study for Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (recto); Sketches: Saint Christopher; Two Figures in Conversation over Money (verso)"

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