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Painting ID:: 62860
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
1854-61 Oil and wax on plaster, 751 x 485 cm (whole painting) Saint-Sulpice, Paris Jacob Wrestling with the Angel has been read as a summary of Delacroix's life and work. Indeed the leitmotif of his career is the struggle - a spiritual combat - between his aspiration to classicism and his Romantic genius, between his admiration for Racine and his love of Shakespeare. Artist: DELACROIX, Eugene Title: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (detail) , painting Date: 1801-1850 French : religious
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