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Gustave Doré, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1855)
Jacob wrestling with the angel, Rembrandt (1659)
Jacob wrestling with the angel, Eugène Delacroix (1861)
Paul Gauguin (1888), Vision after the Sermon showing the episode envisioned by Breton villagers.
Jacob wrestling with the angel
Jacob struggles with the angel by Gutenberg Bible (1558)
The motif of "wrestling with the angels" occurs in several novels including Hermann Hesse's Demian, Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, T.H. White's The Once and Future King, (1979).
In poetry the theme appears in Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Man Watching", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline," Herman Melville's poem "Art," and Emily Dickinson's poem "A little East of Jordan".
In theatre, wrestling with the angel is mentioned in Tony Kushner's play Angels in America; Gustave Dore's image is reenacted in Jean-Luc Godard's Passion. Also Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy's Wedding, Stephen King's novel 11/22/63 Sheila Heti's novel Motherhood...
