La Lutte de Jacob (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
Léon Bonnat
1876
Medium
drypoint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 19.6 x 13.2 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 26.3 x 16.9 cm (10 3/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
René Huyghe Collection
Accession Number
1994.42.3
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Léon Bonnat · 1833–1922
**Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat** (1833–1922) was a prominent French painter, renowned portraitist, art collector, and influential professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. Born in Bayonne, he spent his formative years from 1846 to 1853 in Madrid, where his father ran a bookshop. There, while assisting in the family business, he copied engravings after Old Masters and received training under the Spani...