ELSHEIMER, Adam
(b. 1578, Frankfurt/Main, d. 1610, Roma)

Jacob's Dream

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Oil on copper, 19,5 x 26,1 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Elsheimer painted a few pictures in which figures predominate, but generally they are fused into a harmonious unity with their landscape settings. They are invariably on a small scale and on copper.