Who painted Vision after the sermon?

Paul Gauguin painted Vision after the sermon in 1888.

What Bible passage does Vision after the sermon depict?

Vision after the sermon depicts the biblical scene from Genesis 32:22-32.

Where is Vision after the sermon located?

Vision after the sermon is housed at National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, Princes Street, Edinburgh.

Vision after the sermon by Paul Gauguin

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Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) is an oil painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, completed in 1888. It is now in the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. It depicts a scene from the Bible in which Jacob wrestles an angel. It depicts this indirectly, through a vision that the women depicted see after a sermon in church. It was painted in Pont-Aven, Brittany, France.

In the early part of his career as a painter, Gauguin had painted primarily landscapes en plein air in the Impressionist manner. By 1888, he had become dissatisfied with Impressionism, which did not satisfy his enthusiasm for archaic and primitive forms or his interest in the mystical. In 1888, during a visit to the artist's colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany, he met the young artist Émile Bernard, who had begun painting in a simplified style influenced by Japanese prints. Following Bernard's example but developing it further, Gauguin painted Vision After the Sermon, which marked his interest in interpreting religious subject matter in a highly personal way. He became recognized as the leader of a new style called Synthetism.

Details

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Created: 1888
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimension: 92cm × 73cm
Passage: Genesis 32:22-32
Housed at: National Gallery of Scotland The Mound, Princes Street, Edinburgh

Found in: Genesis, Genesis 32, 19th century, Jacob

Genesis 32:22-32

22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.

26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”

27 He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.

28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.

30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

32 Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

Genesis 32:22-32 · World English Bible

The artist

Paul Gauguin

1848 - 1903

Paris, France

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.

Resources

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888, oil on canvas, 2' 4 3/4" x 3' 1/2" (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh)