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Jacob Jordaens

1593–1678 · Spanish Netherlands

Born
1593 · Antwerp
Died
1678 · Antwerp

93 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Jacob Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, and a designer of tapestries and prints. He created biblical, mythological, allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings, and portraits, becoming the leading Flemish Baroque painter after the deaths of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.

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Jacques "Jacob" Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. After the death of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he became the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time. Unlike those illustrious contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study the Antique and Italian painting and, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he resided in Antwerp his entire life. He also remained largely indifferent to Rubens and van Dyck's intellectual and courtly aspirations. He expressed this attitude in his art by avoiding idealistic treatment of his subject in contrast to these contemporaries. His principal patrons were the wealthy bourgeoisie and local churches. Only late in his career did he receive royal commissions, including from King Charles I of England, Queen Christina of Sweden and the stadtholder class of the Dutch Republic. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries and prints. While he is today mostly identified with his large-scale genre scenes such as The King Drinks (also called the Feast of the Bean King) and As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young, his contemporary reputation was based as much on his numerous mythological, allegorical and biblical scenes. Often regarded as a pupil and epigone of Rubens, he was never recorded as a member of Rubens's workshop. He regularly worked as an independent collaborator of Rubens. The principal influence of Rubens on his work is the use of the chiaroscuro technique which Rubens himself had mastered through his study of Caravaggio's paintings during his stay in Italy. His main artistic influences, besides Rubens, were northern Italian painters such as Jacopo Bassano, Paolo Veronese, and Caravaggio.

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Jacob Jordaens, Head of a Woman

Jacob Jordaens

Head of a Woman, about 1635

Black and red chalk, brush and dark brown wash with white gouache heightening

25.2 × 18.7 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-205276

Jacob Jordaens, A Merry Company

Jacob Jordaens

A Merry Company, about 1644

Watercolor over charcoal, heightened with white opaque watercolor

21.9 × 23.8 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-197912

Jacob Jordaens, Man Kneeling, Facing Right (recto); Sketches of Figures (verso)

Jacob Jordaens

Man Kneeling, Facing Right (recto); Sketches of Figures (verso), about 1630–1635

Black chalk, brown and ocher wash, and violet and massicot gouache (recto); black chalk (verso)

36.8 × 33.5 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-196825

Jacob Jordaens, Moses Striking Water from the Rock

Jacob Jordaens

Moses Striking Water from the Rock, about 1645–1650

Oil on canvas

129.5 × 269.2 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-135329

Jacob Jordaens, The Young Woman and the Jester

Jacob Jordaens

The Young Woman and the Jester, ca. 1640–50

Black chalk and pen and brown ink, red chalk, and gray wash, heightened with white (oxidized)

28 × 21.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-941552

Jacob Jordaens, Dorcas Raised From the Dead by Saint Peter

Jacob Jordaens

Dorcas Raised From the Dead by Saint Peter, ca. 1670

Red and black chalk; margins left blank by the artist (2.5 cm., at the bottom and .5 - .8 cm. on the top and sides)

30.3 × 40.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-941549

Jacob Jordaens, Old Couple with a Child Playing a Pipe

Jacob Jordaens

Old Couple with a Child Playing a Pipe, late 18th century

Pen and brush and brown gallnut ink, brown and grayish brown washes.

26.1 × 37 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-941542

Jacob Jordaens, Saint Philip Healing the Cripple in Samaria

Jacob Jordaens

Saint Philip Healing the Cripple in Samaria, ca. 1655

Red and black chalk, reddish brown and gray wash; paper extended 3 cm. at the left and top by the artist (similar extensions at the right and bottom margins may have been removed).

35.6 × 43.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-937423

Jacob Jordaens, Study of a Young Girl Drinking from a Glass

Jacob Jordaens

Study of a Young Girl Drinking from a Glass, ca. 1640–45

Black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on light brown paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink

18.6 × 15 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-547521

Jacob Jordaens, Bacchus Discovering Ariadne

Jacob Jordaens

Bacchus Discovering Ariadne, 1647

oil paint

121 × 127.3 cm

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

C24-452391

Jacob Jordaens, The Presentation in the Temple, with a Design for a Sculpted Frame

Jacob Jordaens

The Presentation in the Temple, with a Design for a Sculpted Frame, ca. 1630–35

Brush and brown ink, watercolor, gouache, heightened with white and yellow gouache

22.4 × 16 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-515991

Jacob Jordaens, Portrait of an Old Man

Jacob Jordaens

Portrait of an Old Man, 1637

oil paint

154 × 118.5 cm

Hermitage Museum

C24-422491

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