Isaac Blessing Jacob (Stom)

Isaac Blessing Jacob is an oil on canvas painting by Matthias Stom, created c. 1635, whilst the artist was on Sicily.

[1] It is now in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, which purchased it in 1994.

[2] The sniffing dog indicates the work can also be read as an allegory of the five senses.

The work was exhibited at a 1999-2000 exhibition, the first retrospective on the artist.

[3] This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a stub.