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Jacob’s Dream (Spanish: El sueño de Jacob) is an oil painting by José de Ribera Lo Spagnoletto. It measures 179 by 233 centimetres (70 in × 92 in) and is in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.Jacob appears as a shepherd sleeping resting on his left shoulder with a tree behind him. In the background on the other side is the ladder that he sees in his dream. It is not a wooden ladder but a ladder of light by which angels are ascending and descending.
