Jacob's Dream

possibly 1613 or 1614

Domenico Feti Italian, 1588/89 - 1623

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Title Jacob's Dream

Artwork Date possibly 1613 or 1614

Artist Domenico Feti

Life Dates 1588/89 - 1623

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 23 13/16 × 17 1/16 inches (60.5 × 43.4 cm) Framed: 28 3/8 × 21 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (72.1 × 55.2 × 5.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 39.669

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1939, (Jacob Heimann, New York, New York, USA)

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Newberry, J. S. "An Italian Baroque Painting at Alger House," Bulletin of the DIA 19, no. 6 (1939/1940): pp. 69-71, (repr.).

An Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Franciso, 1941, p. 16, no. 36; (repr.), p. 42.

Francis, Henry S. "Jacob's Dream by Domenico Feti," Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1941): no. 9, p. 135, note 2 (cited).

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. 1944, p. 46, no. 528.

Italian Baroque Painting: 17th and 18th Centuries. Exh. cat., Smith College of Art. Northampton, 1947.

A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Domenico Feti, 1589-1624. Exh. cat., Durlacher Brother. New York, 1950, cat. 5 [entry by B. Davidson].

Breuning, M. "Accomplished Feti," Art Digest, vol. 24, no. 12 (March 15, 1950): p. 10, (repr.) [review of Durlacher exhibition].

La Farge, H. A. "Fetti's Variations on His Own Theme," Art News, vol. 49, no.1 (March 1950): p. 44, (repr.) [entry by H.L.F., review of Durlacher show].

Pallucchini, R. "Una mostra del Fetti a New York," Arte Veneta, vol. 4 (1950): p. 184 [overview].

Arslan, E. "Cinque disegni veneti: Farinati, Fetti, Bassetti, Crosato, Pietro Longhi," Arte Veneta, vol. 8 (1954): pp. 289-94, esp. p. 291, no. 2.

Katalog der Gemäldegalerie: Italiener, Spanier, Franzosen, Englander, vol. 1. Kunsthistorishes Museum. Vienna, 1960, pp. 49 [cited, cat. 529].

Art in Italy: 1600-1700. Detroit, 1965, pp. 166-7, no. 190, (repr.) [entry by R. L. Manning].

Lehmann, Jurgen M. "Leben und Werk des Römanische Malers." PhD. diss., Darmstadt, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1967, p. 184, no. 24.

Donzelli, C. & G.M. Pilo. I Pittori del Seicento Veneto. Florence, 1967, p. 175.

Fredericksen, B. & F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, pp. 70, 256, 579.

Pallucchini, R. "Una Collezione Italiana a Londra," Arte Veneta, vol. 1 (1981): p. 136.

Hidden Treasures: Wisconsin Collects Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, 1987, p. 93, cat 15, p. 93, (repr.).

Safarik, Eduard A. Fetti. Milan, 1990, pp. 35-36, (fig. 3b) [as workshop, with possible participation of Fetti], 37, no. 3h, 3g and 3y, 37-38, no. 3z.

Mantova, Palazzo Te. Domenico Fetti 1588/89-1623. 1996, pp. 198, cat. 48, (color repr.); p. 200 [entry by E.A Safarik--cites DIA picture as studio replica; also repr. versions in Vienna and Rome].

Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 72-75 [cat. no. 24, entry by W. Bissell].

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Domenico Feti, Jacob's Dream, possibly 1613 or 1614, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 39.669.