
The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau
1581 · Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer
21.2 × 19.5 cm (8 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago

Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos was a Flemish painter, known mainly for his history and allegorical paintings and portraits. He was, together with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters in the Spanish Netherlands after Frans Floris's career slumped in the second half of the sixteenth century as a result of the Iconoclastic fury of the Beeldenstorm.
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