Job Ridiculed by his Wife by Georges de La Tour, Job 2, Bible.Gallery
Job Ridiculed by his Wife created 1650 nad was completed in 1650 Its dimension is 97cm wide and 145cm high and it was drawn with oil on canvas style.
Artwork Description
Job Taunted by his Wife is a painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour, produced at an unknown date between 1620 and 1650 - Sterling argues the work was produced in the painter's youth, but Rosenberg argues it was produced at the end of his career around 1650. It is now in the Musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain in the French town of Épinal.
Originally misattributed to an unknown 17th century Italian painter, it was acquired by its present owner in 1829 and reattributed to de La Tour in 1922, a reattribution confirmed by a 1972 restoration which revealed the painter's signature.
The painting depicts a scene from the Old Testament in which Job, a once rich and influential man who in a short space of time lost his children, his possessions and his health but not his piety, is being chided by his wife for maintaining his faith and urged to curse God and die.