The birth of Esau and Jacob, as painted by Benjamin West. Source: Wikipedia The image is Chiaroscuro. Most of the figures are dressed in rich red fabrics. One, in the background stroking the head of one of the twins, wears gold. Rebecca reclines on a couch, the spread golden, her garments white. Each babe is dressed in white. Sitting by the couch where Rebecca reclines, one woman, wearing a white head covering, holds one of the twins.