concept
Painting of the meeting of Jacob and Esau
Jacob and Esau painting
also: картина, изображавшая встречу Иакова с Исавом
A single large painting depicting the reconciliation of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 33) is noted as the one distinctly Jewish object in Susanna's otherwise generically overfurnished drawing room -- Chekhov's narrator remarks there is 'almost nothing distinctly Jewish' in the room besides it, using the painting's isolation to underscore Susanna's assimilated, secularized surroundings.
Reading notes
- The Mire §45 the meeting of Jacob and Esau
A painting depicting the biblical reconciliation of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 33), named as the single distinctly Jewish object in Susanna's otherwise generically overfurnished drawing room -- the narrator's way of underscoring how assimilated and secularized her surroundings otherwise are.