Bartolomé Esteban MurilloSpanish, 1617–1682Isaac Blessing Jacob
Can I see it?
Yes, on view now
Where is “Isaac Blessing Jacob” now? State Hermitage Museum, Room 239, Saint Petersburg. Yes, on view now. Checked August 29, 2026.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Closed· opens at 12:00 PM
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Isaac Blessing Jacob is a 1665-1670 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, forming a pair with Jacob's Dream. Both paintings were acquired via Dominique Vivant Denon in Paris in 1811 for the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, where they still hang, along with 26 other works by the artist and his studio.
Details
- Accession number
- ГЭ-332
In the catalog
Sources
- State Hermitage Museum
- Image: State Hermitage Museum — Museum open access
In the life of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
The whole lifeDecember 1617
Born
1645
Return to Seville and Marriage
Murillo returned to Seville and married Beatriz Cabrera y Villalobos, with whom he had ten children; only one of them, Gabriel, followed his father's path as a painter.
1645–1648
First Major Commission
In the year of his wedding Murillo received his first major commission — eleven paintings of Franciscan saints for the Convent of San Francisco in Seville; he worked on them from 1645 to 1648.
1660
Co-founder of the Academy of Fine Arts
Murillo became one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville and in 1660 shared its direction with Francisco Herrera the Younger.
c. 1681 – 1682
Fall from Scaffolding in Cádiz
A few months before his death Murillo fell from scaffolding while working on a fresco in the Capuchin church in Cádiz; the fresco was completed by his pupil Francisco Meneses Osorio.
3 April 1682
Died
