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Jacob Jordaens: 110 Masterpieces

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


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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Detail

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


Assumption of the VirginOil on canvas, 280 x 178 cm


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


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


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


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


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


Self-Portrait among Parents, Brothers and Sisters (detail), c. 1615 Oil on canvas


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


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 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


The Four Evangelists, 1620-25 Oil on canvas, 133 x 118 cm


The King DrinksOil on canvas, 156 x 210 cm


The King Drinks, 1638-40 Oil on canvas, 152 x 204 cm


The King Drinks, 1638 Oil on canvas


The Rest of Diana, 1645-55 Oil on canvas, 203 x 264 cm


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

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