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Jacob Jordaens: 110 Masterpieces
By Maria Tsaneva
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Copyright © 2014 by Maria Tsaneva
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Jacob Jordaens: 110 Masterpieces
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Foreword
Jacob Jordaens (1593 – 1678) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general. However, he is best known today for his numerous large genre scenes based on proverbs in the manner of his contemporary Jan Brueghel the Elder.
Jordaens never made the traditional trip to Italy to study classical and Renaissance art. Despite this, he made many efforts to study prints or works of Italian masters available in northern Europe. For example, Jordaens is known to have studied Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, and Bassano, either through prints, copies or originals. His work, however, betrays local traditions, especially the genre traditions of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in honestly depicting Flemish life with authenticity and showing common people in the act of celebratory expressions of life. His commissions frequently came from wealthy local Flemish patrons and clergy, although later in his career he worked for courts and governments across Europe.
Besides a large output of monumental oil paintings he was a prolific tapestry designer, a career that reflects his early training as a "watercolor" painter. Jordaens' importance can also be seen by his number of pupils; the Guild of St. Luke records fifteen official pupils from 1621 to 1667, but six others were recorded as pupils in court documents and not the Guild records, so it is probable that he had more students than officially recorded. Among them were his cousin and his son Jacob. Like Rubens and other artists at that time, Jordaens' studio relied on his assistants and pupils in the production of his paintings. Not many of these pupils went on to fame themselves, however a position in Jordaens's studio was highly desirable for young artists from across
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Jacob Jordaens was born on 19 May 1593, the first of eleven children, to the wealthy linen merchant Jacob Jordaens Sr. and Barbara van Wolschaten in Antwerp. Little is known about Jordaens's early education. It can be assumed that he received the advantages of the education usually provided for children of his social class. This assumption is supported by his clear handwriting, his competence in French and in his knowledge of mythology. Jordaens familiarity with biblical subjects is evident in his many religious paintings, and his personal interaction with the Bible was strengthened by his later conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism. Like Rubens, he studied under Adam van Noort, who was his only teacher. During this time Jordaens lived in Van Noort's house and became very close to the rest of the family. After eight years of training with Van Noort, he enrolled in the Guild of St. Luke as a "waterschilder", or watercolor artist. This medium was often used for preparing tapestry cartoons in the seventeenth century although examples of his earliest watercolor works are no longer extant. In the same year as his entry into the guild, 1616, he married his teacher's eldest daughter, Anna Catharina van Noort, with whom he had three children. In 1618, Jordaens bought a house in Hoogstraat (the area in Antwerp that he grew up in). He would then later buy the adjoining house to expand his household and workspace in 1639, mimicking Rubens's house built two decades earlier. He lived and worked here until his death in 1678.
Paintings and Drawings
The Ferry Boat to Antwerp1634, oil on canvas, 2795 mm x 4670 mm
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Allegory of Fertility, c. 1623 Oil on canvas, 180 x 241 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
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Allegory of FertilityPen, ink on paper, 191 x 2261 mm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Bacchus as a child1640, oil on canvas, 1,210 mm x 1,060 mm
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Female Nude, Seen from the Back1601, black chalk, red chalk and white chalk on paper, 257 mm x 203 mm
Like to like1645, Black chalk, brush and brown ink, water-colour and body-colour, 139 mm x 218 mm
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Susanna and the Elders1653, oil on canvas, 1,535 mm x 2,030 mm
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The Bean King, c. 1655Oil on canvas, 242 x 300 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom (after Rubens)1618-20, Oil on canvas, 1695 mm x 1985 mm
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A Hunter and his dogs1635, Oil on canvas, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man
1642, Oil on canvas, Gemäldegalerie Alte MeisterDetail
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Two Apostles headsOil on canvas, Private collection
The Feast of Cleopatra 1653, Oil on canvas, 156.4 x 149.3 cm, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
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The Holy Family with Various Persons and Animals in a Boat1652, oil on canvas, 2540 mm x 2200 mm
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Portrait of a LadyLate 1640s, oil on canvas
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Mercury, Argus and IoOil on canvas, 114 by 195 cm, Private collection
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Self-Portrait as a Bagpipe PlayerOil on canvas, Private collection
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Unrequited LoveOil on canvas, laid on panel, 88.9 by 63 cm, Privete collection
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St AndrewOil on panel, Privete collection
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The Holy Family with an AngelOil on canvas, 89.7 x 103 cm, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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CrucifixionOil on canvas
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The daughters of Cecrops find the small ErichthoniosOil on canvas
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A Satyr1645, oil on canvas, 135 × 176 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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Allegory of FertilityOil on canvas, 119 x 182 cm
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
An Apostle, 1623-25 OIl on oak, 68,5 x 51,5 cm
Národní Galerie, Prague
Apostles Paul and Barnabas in Lystra, 1645 Oil on canvas, 172 x 242 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes, 1638 Oil on canvas, 192 x 120 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes (detail), 1638 Oil on canvas
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Assumption of the VirginOil on canvas, 280 x 178 cm
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
Bearded Man Stepping DownIndia ink, bodycolor, chalk on paper, 52 x 29 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Christ Driving the Merchants from the Temple, c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 288 x 436 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Diana and Actaeon, c. 1640 Oil on oak panel, 54 x 76 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Diana and Actaeon (detail), c. 1640 Oil on oak panel
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Education of JupiterOil on panel, 61 x 75 cm Rockox House, Antwerp
Martyrdom of St Quentin, c. 1650 Watercolor, gouache, 406 x 293 mm
Biblioteca, Turin
Meleager and Atalanta, 1618 Oil on canvas, 152 x 120 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Nymphs at the Fountain of Love, c. 1630 Oil on canvas backed by panel, 131 x127 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Offering to Ceres, Goddess of Harvest, 1618-20 Oil on canvas, 165 x 112 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Portrait of a Family, 1650-52 Oil on canvas, 178 x 152 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Portrait of a Gentlewoman, c. 1660 Oil on canvas, 68 x 50 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Portrait of a Young Married Couple, 1615-1620 Oil on panel, 125 x 93 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portrait of an Old Man, c. 1637 Oil on canvas, 154 x 119 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Elizabeth, 1640 Oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm
Private collection
Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Elizabeth, c. 1637 Oil on canvas, 75 x 55 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
Portrait of the Painter's Daughter Anna Catharina, c. 1635 Oil on canvas, 135 x 114 cm
Private collection
Prometheus Bound, c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 245 x 178 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
Return of the Holy Family from Egypt, c. 1616 Oil on oak, 63 x 50 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Satyr and PeasantOil on canvas, 188,5 x 168 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Satyr at the Peasant's House, 1620 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 194,5 x 203,5 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Self-Portrait among Parents, Brothers and Sisters, c. 1615 Oil on canvas, 175 x 138 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Self-Portrait among Parents, Brothers and Sisters (detail), c. 1615 Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Self-Portrait among Parents, Brothers and Sisters (detail), c. 1615 Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
St Charles Cares for the Plague Victims of Milan, 1655 Oil on canvas
Sint-Jacobskerk, Antwerp
Studies of the Head of Abraham GrapheusOil on paper mounted on panel, 45,2 x 52 cm
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
The Bean King, 1635-55 Oil on canvas, 243 x 373 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel
The Bean King, c. 1638 Oil on canvas, 160 x 213 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
The Fall of ManOil on canvas, 185 x 221 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
The Family of the Artist, c. 1621 Oil on canvas, 181 x 187 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Four Evangelists, 1620-25 Oil on canvas, 133 x 118 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The King DrinksOil on canvas, 156 x 210 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
The King Drinks, 1638-40 Oil on canvas, 152 x 204 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The King Drinks, 1638 Oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
The Rest of Diana, 1645-55 Oil on canvas, 203 x 264 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Satyr and the Peasant, c. 1620 Oil on canvas, 171 x 194 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel
Triumph of Frederik Hendrik, 1647-52 Oil on canvas
Huis ten Bosch, The Hague
Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1617 Oil on panel, 125 x 96 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague