Cocktails with a Curator: Claude’s “Jacob, Rachel, and Leah at the Well”
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- This week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator” has a Valentine’s Day theme! Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon examines Claude Lorrain’s “Jacob, Rachel, and Leah at the Well,” a drawing from the Frick’s small but noteworthy collection of works on paper. A study for a larger landscape painting that now hangs at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the sheet depicts the biblical love story between Jacob and sisters Rachel and Leah. This week’s complementary cocktail is a refreshing Furio Biondo-a concoction invented by a friend of Xavier’s-or a Rosemary Lemon Spritzer mocktail.
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Fabulous as always. Small Biblical correction - it's Mary and Martha, not "Mary Magdalene and Martha" that are compared to these two Old Testament sisters, Rachel and Leah. There are quite a few Mary's in Jesus' life, like his mother, and someone called "the other Mary." They often get conflated, but they are very distinct in character. Mary and Martha were sisters and lived with their brother Lazarus. Mary Magdalene was a different person, an independent and forthright woman, called "the apostle to the apostles" because she was the first witness to the resurrection.
I was curious about this question of several Mary’s. A quick google search led me to the information that this is oft debated, but not 100% provable. I’m going to read more carefully about it. I thoroughly enjoy these Cocktails With a Curator which teach me so much.
yes, I also caught that small error. Mary Magdalene is not the sister of Lazarus but a different Mary from the Mary and Martha story.
Riveting history, not only of Claude the charm, but of old master drawings. They got pasted into albums, like snapshots a hundred years ago? Yikes.
With figures, I never know exactly what the gestures mean; was there a code of body language?
This series could go on forever, and I'd always be grateful!
Thank you Xavier, thank you Frick!
Greetings from Italy. Love how you just get to the point.I do hope you can make it back to Italy. We would like that!
Thanks very much beautiful landscapes of Claude Lorrain
Today, Claude Lorrain is considered as French painter. But he was not French painter. In his time his nationality was Lotharingian, from Lorraine. He never felt French.
About to make this cocktail..was surprised when I couldn’t find any recipe for it outside the Frick’s website 😆 Do people recommend using sweet vermouth or dry? 🍸
Brilliant, as always. Please keep these Cocktails with the Curator going, even after Covid!
The valuable information you give us will enhance interest in art history for years. Thank you. Elizabeth 🇨🇦
Love this friday night tradition
looking forward to this, first time, but love The Frick
Thanks again your charity "coctail".The landscapes and the biblical story Rachel and Lea painting I finde also a masterpiece again Have a god weekend Mr.Salamon and sucsess with reopening on Medison avenue
Salud! Apart from always delivering fascinating information about the art, the cocktails are really interesting too.
Beautiful essay about the Frick in the NEW YORKER MAG.
What a great story and perfect explanation of history of sketch and paintings. Just wish I had prosecco to complete the Valentine's cocktail. Best to us all in Year of the Ox!
Another lovely presentation! Thanks!
So that is who Laban was, good to know. Jacob Indentured for a bait and switch. Caveat emptor. Thanks.
Hm, this deception could have been avoided had Jacob only looked at his bride's face, or talked to her, on their wedding night. And didn't Laban have seven years to find a husband for Leah? These ancient Israelites were irrational (o; Incidentally, is there a reason why Claude Lorrain is known by his first name?
The Claude glass-a small convex round mirror -used by sightseers to frame a landscape so that it resembled a Claude Lorraine landscape painting-is named for this painter but there is no evidence he ever knew of it.
Another lovely episode. I enjoyed very much to watch a drawing instead of a painting, and also to see a work by Claude Lorraine a little bit different to the works normally displayed in most of the museums. Just great! Thank you Mr. Solomon for letting us know of the new face we will see next week. Looking forward to it, but please do not go very far from us.
Good luck with the opening and thank you for another illuminating video.
Hello from the Space Coast of Florida
Happy Valentine's WE!
Have not known,than Lorain is a nickname.
Thank you and good night.
Hello from MA waterfront