Zurbarán. Jacob and his twelve sons

he ambitious series Jacob and His Twelve Sons, painted in Seville by the Spanish Golden-Age master Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) in the 1640s, will be on view in Dallas and New York from September 2017 through April 2018. The works have left Auckland Castle for the third time since 1756, when Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, bought them at auction from the collection of a Jewish merchant named James Mendez. Benjamin, the only painting that Trevor could not purchase, has remained in a private collection ever since, but has traveled to the United States as well for this exhibition.