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Gustave Dore: Biblical Illustrations
Isaac Blessing Jacob
See Genesis xxviii.
THIS VERY beautiful patriarchal scene is conveyed to us by this picture. The ve~er~~le Isaac, seated on one side of his couch, blesses his beloved Jacob. The PQ;"llitlve household, yet overflowing with the rude wealth of a desert chief, the lovely view of the reposing camels through the open door, the half-averted form of Rebekah, as if too touched Jat thought of the coming departure to steadily endure it, all form an idyl of pastoral life powerfully rendered by a master's touch.