Jacob's Dream
Jacob’s Dream is a 1639 oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish Tenebrist painter José de Ribera.Description
It measures and is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.Analysis
appears as a shepherd sleeping, resting on his left shoulder with a tree behind him. In the background on the other side is the ladder that he sees in his dream. It is not a wooden ladder but a ladder of light, by which angels are ascending and descending.
