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Woodcut with green tint of a sleeping man with a stone pillow, a ladder to heaven with angels, and a bearded figure in clouds above a landscape.

Droom van Jakob

A woodcut with green tint shows a sleeping man on the ground, his head resting on a stone, while a tall ladder rises diagonally toward a bearded figure in the clouds at top left. Winged angels climb and descend the rungs against a hilly landscape with a town.

Artist
Lucas Cranach (I)
Date
1523-1526
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2806 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1526.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Español: El sueño de Jacob de la escalera al cielo

Una xilografía con tinte verde muestra a un hombre dormido en el suelo, con la cabeza apoyada en una piedra, mientras una alta escalera asciende en diagonal hacia una figura barbada entre las nubes, arriba a la izquierda. Ángeles con alas suben y bajan por los peldaños ante un paisaje de colinas y un pueblo.

Português: O sonho de Jacó com a escada até o céu

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