Job Ridiculed by his Wife
(1650)
Georges de La Tour
(Vic-sur-Seille, 1593 - 1652)
Job 2
Saint Thomas by Georges de La Tour
- Created
- 1630
- Dimension
- 54cm × 65cm
- Method
- oil on canvas
- Passage
- John 11:1-16
- Housed at
- National Museum of Western Art Ueno Park, Tokyo
This is one of La Tour's 'daylight' masterpieces. The bold, simplified modelling is combined here with a psychological analysis of rare subtlety. The refined sable and slate-grey colouring distinguishes the work from the five other La Tours in the Louvre, where red predominate.
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