06 Works, Today, May 6th is the Prophet Job's day, With Footnotes - #127

Léon Bonnat, (1833–1922)

Job, c. 1880

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Léon Bonnat, or Léon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat, (born June 20, 1833, Bayonne, France—died September 8, 1922, Monchy-St-Éloi), notable French portrait painter and teacher of several well-known artists.

Bonnat studied under Federico Madrazo in Madrid and, sponsored by the city of Bayonne, under Léon Cogniet in Paris. His earlier works are religious paintings in which his study of Spanish Baroque art is evident. His later and better-known portrait series of prominent Europeans and Americans was begun in 1875. In these he drew inspiration from Diego Velázquez and the Spanish realists. His subjects included Adolphe Thiers, Victor Hugo, Hippolyte Taine, Louis Pasteur, J.-A.-D. Ingres, and other contemporaries. He painted about 200 portraits, most of them featuring photographically accurate draftsmanship and subdued colouring.

In 1888 Bonnat became professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts, and he became its director in 1905. He was an influential teacher—his students included Thomas Eakins, Gustave Caillebotte, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec—and he ran a busy studio for more than three decades. His excellent and wide-ranging art collection is part of the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne. More on Léon Bonnat

Job is a blessed man who lives righteously in the Land of Uz. The Lord's praise of Job prompts an angel with the title of "satan" to suggest that Job served God simply because God protected him. God removes Job's protection, and gives permission to the angel to take his wealth, his children, and his physical health,but not his life. 

After Giovanni Battista Langetti (Italian, 1635–1676)

The Patience of Job

Oil on canvas

108.1 x 90.2 cm. (42.6 x 35.5 in.)

Private collection

Giovanni Battista Langetti (1625–1676), also known as Giambattista Langetti, was an Italian late-Baroque painter. He was active in his native Genoa, then Rome, and finally for the longest period in Venice.

He first trained with Assereto, then Pietro da Cortona, but afterwards studied under Giovanni Francesco Cassana, appeared in Venice by the 1650s where he worked in a striking Caravaggesque style. He is thought to have influenced Johann Karl Loth and Antonio Zanchi. He painted many historical busts for private patrons in the Venetian territory and in Lombardy. He died at Venice in 1676. More on Giovanni Battista Langetti

Despite his difficult circumstances, he does not curse God, but rather curses the day of his birth. And although he anguishes over his plight, he stops short of accusing God of injustice. Job's miserable earthly condition is simply God's will.

Gerard Seghers, (1591–1651) 

The Patient Job

Oil on canvas

National Gallery in Prague 

Job is seen refuting the idea of retributive justice endorsed by his friends. Job is seen refuting the idea of retributive justice endorsed by his friends. Job's misfortunates were undeserved and he will later confront God in a second whirlwind.

Gerard Seghers (Birth March 1591 - Death March 18 1651) is an Antwerp painter, art collector and dealer. For the most part he produces monumental genre pieces and large religious and allegorical pieces in the genre style with a characteristic landscape format. Seghers worked in Italy and Spain. From about 1620, his home base is again Antwerp. Seghers completed altarpieces in this period for many churches in the Southern Netherlands. The early work of Seghers show stylistic connections with the oeuvre of Janssen. On the stylistic and thematic level, Seghers is strongly related to the Caravaggio movement. In contrast to Caravaggio, he chooses a more idealised treatment. Dramatically contrasting chiaroscuro, the close-up technique and an exaggerated expression are characteristics of his painting style After 1630, the light in his work becomes more evenly spread out and the dark background becomes exchanged with architectural motifs, clouds and landscape elements. The realistic facial expressions become more Classicist by nature. His art in general becomes more theatrical with more variants of colour, in conformity to the developments that were being introduced by Rubens at the moment. More on Gerard Seghers 

Job debates three friends concerning his condition. They argue whether it was justified, and they debate solutions to his problems. 

Ilya Repin, (1844–1930)

Job and His Friends, c. 1869

Oil on canvas

Height: 137 cm (53.9 in); Width: 200 cm (78.7 in)

Russian Museum,  Arts Square, Saint Petersburg,

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August 1844 – 29 September 1930) was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1883) and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–91).

Repin was born in Chuguyev, in the Kharkov Governorate (now Ukraine) of the Russian Empire into a military family. He entered military school in 1854 and in 1856 studied under Ivan Bunakov, a local icon painter. He began to paint around 1860. In 1874–1876 he showed at the Salon in Paris and at the exhibitions of the Itinerants' Society in Saint Petersburg. He was awarded the title of academician in 1876.

In 1901 he was awarded the Legion of Honour. In 1911 he traveled to the World Exhibition in Italy, where his painting 17 October 1905 and his portraits were displayed in their own separate room. In 1916 Repin worked on his book of reminiscences, Far and Near. He welcomed the Russian Revolution of 1917. Celebrations were held in 1924 in Kuokkala to mark Repin's 80th birthday, followed by an exhibition of his works in Moscow. In 1925 a jubilee exhibition of his works was held in the Russian Museum in Leningrad. Repin died in 1930 and was buried at the Penates. More on Ilya Yefimovich Repin

Job ultimately condemns all their counsel, beliefs, and critiques of him as false. God then appears to Job and his friends out of a whirlwind, not answering Job's central questions. Job, by staying silent before God, stresses the point that he understands that his affliction is God's will even though he despairs at not knowing why. Job appears faithful without direct knowledge of God and without demands for special attention from God, even for a cause that all others would declare to be just. And the text gives an allusion to Job, "And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding".

Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1656) 

Job restored to prosperity

Oil on canvas

Height: 131.4 cm (51.7 in) Width: 101 cm (39.7 in)

Chrysler Museum of Art

Laurent de La Hyre (February 27, 1606 – December 28, 1656) was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris.

La Hyre was greatly influenced by the work of Italian artists who came to Paris. He became a pupil of Georges Lallemand and studied the works of Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but never visited Italy. La Hyre's captivating use of color and delicately posed figures are a trademark of his early, painteresque style. He was an innovative artist who used his superior skills as a storyteller to portray rarely depicted subjects. La Hyre is associated with the transitional period before the introduction of the French Baroque by Simon Vouet.

His drawings, of which the British Museum possesses a fine example, are treated as seriously as his paintings, and sometimes show simplicity and dignity of effect. 

In 1648, La Hyre was one of the founders of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and was elected as one of the original twelve elders in charge of its running. More on Laurent de La Hyre

God rebukes the three friends and gives them instruction for remission of sin, followed by Job being restored to an even better condition than his former wealthy state. Job is blessed to have seven sons, and three daughters named Jemimah (which means "dove"), Keziah ("cinnamon"), and Keren-happuch ("horn of eye-makeup"). His daughters were said to be the most beautiful women in the land. More on Job

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