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The Vision after the Sermon

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

1888: The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Gauguin was impressed by the deeply religious peasants of contemporary Brittany, and set this biblical scene there. The painting style was influenced by the imagery of Medieval stained glass.
 
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