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Jacob's Dream
1639 · Oil on canvas · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
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Jacob sleeps on the bare ground with his head on his hand, sandals still on, and over him heaven opens. Nicola Spinosa, writing for the Prado, calls it the posture of a tired traveler, beside the gnarled, leaning trunk of a tree almost bare of leaves. The ladder of angels Jusepe de Ribera sets above him is made of delicate forms in quick, essential strokes, and it nearly dissolves, Spinosa says, into a whirl of golden light. What holds solid is the sleeper; what he sees is barely there. The signature, once hard to read, may be why royal inventories called it a Murillo. The light keeps coming down.
Sources: Nicola Spinosa, 'Sueño de Jacob, El [Ribera]', Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado; read 2026-09-24 · Museo Nacional del Prado, 'Jacob's Dream', P001117, read 2026-09-24
And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.
Genesis 28:12 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)