Laban Searching for His Stolen Household Gods
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Laban Searching for His Stolen Household Gods, painted by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo around c. 1665–70. The scene depicts Laban’s search, a biblical episode, rendered in oil on canvas. Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting measures 186.1 x 229.2 cm. Murillo employed a dramatic use of light and shadow to emphasize the tension in the narrative.
Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter known for his religious and genre scenes. He worked primarily in Seville, where he spent most of his life.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.469
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