Bartolomé Esteban Murillo / Laban Searching for His Stolen Gods / c. 1665-1670

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Laban Searching for His Stolen Gods
c. 1665-1670
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Creator Name: Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban
Creator Nationality: European; Iberian; Spanish
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1617 - 1682
Gender: M
Creator Birth Place: Seville
Creator Name-CRT: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Title: Laban Searching for His Stolen Gods
Title Type: Primary
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Creation Start Date: 1665
Creation End Date: 1670
Creation Date: c. 1665-1670
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: Painting
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 243cm x 362cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1965.469
Credit Line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: [Perhaps Marqués de Villamanrique, Seville]; Marqués de Santiago, Madrid (the entire series is recorded there in 1787, this painting was sold in 1808 to William Buchanan and W. G. Coesvelt); Earl Grosvenor, London (1820, by descent to Dukes of Westminster, London sale (1924); Jacques Canson, Paris (1926); Carlos Guinle, Rio de Janeiro (1927); (Wildenstein, 1965)
Context:

As told in Genesis 30 and 31, Jacob, with his wives Rachel and Leah, lived with his uncle Laban. After Jacob and his family departed, Laban discovered that the statues of his household gods were missing and pursued Jacob, accusing him of stealing them. Here, Jacob invites Laban to search his tent, while Rachel sits on the saddlebag containing the statues that she had secretly taken. Laban searches the tent but does not find the statues. Afterwards, Laban and Jacob reconcile their differences.

This large canvas is one of a series of five scenes from the Life of Jacob painted by Murillo during the 1660s. Two of the other paintings in the series are now in the Hermitage (St. Petersburg) and one is in the Meadows Museum (Dallas). The present location of the fourth is unknown.

AMICA ID: CMA_.1965.469
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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