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Jacques Stella
Jacob's Laddercirca 1650

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Oval painting on banded agate or onyx, depicting a sleeping shepherd, a flock of sheep, and a group of winged angels descending from fiery heavenly clouds above

Jacques Stella, Jacob's Ladder, circa 1650, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Bernard C. Solomon/Davon Music Corporation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jacques Stella
France, Lyons, 1596-1657
Title
Jacob's Ladder
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1650
Medium
Oil on onyx
Dimensions
Canvas: 8 7/8 × 13 in. (22.54 × 33.02 cm) Frame: 13 5/16 × 17 1/2 × 2 in. (33.81 × 44.45 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernard C. Solomon/Davon Music Corporation
Accession Number
AC1996.231.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Nygren, Christopher J. "Titian's Ecce Homo on Slate: Stone, Oil, and the Transubstantiation of Painting." The Art Bulletin 99, no.1 (2017): 36-66.
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers. Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023.

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