#jacob wrestling the angel

Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888, oil on canvas.

Here we see an image of a group of women witnessing a vision on Jacob wrestling the angel. It evokes a point in Gauguin’s career when he was focusing less on landscape painting, and was drawing his attention more to personal depictions of figurative and religious subjects.
In addition to this it is interesting to note the schematic style of the figures and the boldness of the colours and outline. Here we can see that stained glass windows inspired the style of this painting, as well as his increased fascination with so called ‘Primitive’ art which harks back to a simpler way of life.