Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Title:
Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well
Date:
1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
48 3/4 x 63 3/16 inches (123.8 x 160.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, lower right: "B. West | 1775"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.20
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
Old Testament | camel (mammal) | religious and mythological subject | Rebekah receives ear-rings and golden bracelets from Eliezer | costume | bracelet | urn | shadows | gift | love | lovers | men | women | servant | tying
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 20, no. 56, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 242-243, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)John Dillenberger, Benjamin West : The Context of his Life's Work, with Particular Attention to Paintings with Religious Subject Matter, Including a Correlated Version of Early Nineteenth-Century Lists of West's Paintings, Exhibitions, and Sales Records of his Works..., , Trinity University Press, San Antonio, 1977, pp. 163, 192, NJ18 W52 +D55 Oversize (YCBA)Exhibition Catalogue. 1776. 8th, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 8, Royal Academy of Arts, 1776, p. 26, no. 319, N5054 A 53 vol. 1:1Sarah ( Sarah Helen ) Monks, The Wolfe man : Benjamin West's Anglo-American accent, Art History, vol. 34, September 2011, p. 664, fig. 6, N1 .A75 (YCBA)Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, pp. 34-35, V 2576 (YCBA)Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880David Peters Corbett, Anglo-American : artistic exchange between Britain and the USA, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA, 2012, pp. 30. 41. 42, Chap. 2, fig. 1, N72.N38 A54 2012 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 20, no. 56, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, pp. 79, 80, 2698-69, 278,284, 291-92, no. 243, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA)