Vision After the Sermon
Paul Gauguin · 1888
The story
Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) is an oil painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, completed in 1888. It is now in the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. It depicts a scene from the Bible in which Jacob wrestles an angel. It depicts this indirectly, through a vision that the women depicted see after a sermon in church. It was painted in Pont-Aven, Brittany, France.
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1888
- Collection
- Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Movement
- Pont-Aven School
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 72.2 × 91 cm
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