Jacob Jordaens
A Family Concert
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January 31, 05:59 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jacob Jordaens
Antwerp 1593 - 1678
A Family Concert
Point of the brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white
188 by 266 mm; 7 ½ by 10 ½ in.
Probably Comte A. Marquet de Vasselot, sale, Paris, 1891 lot 167;
with C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, Neue Lagerliste 38, 1964, cat. 73;
Kurt Meissner (1909-2004), Zürich (L.4665);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby’s, 15 November 1995, lot 69
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, 1967, cat. 146;
Stanford University, Stanford Art Gallery, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Finch College Museum of Art, New York, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, 1969-70, cat. 57, illus.;
Norwich, Castle Museum, The Northern Eye, 1987 (catalogue unnumbered).
R.-A. d'Hulst, Jordaens Drawings, London 1974, vol. I, p. 288, no. A201, vol. III, fig. 216
Scenes of carousing and merrymaking constitute a significant proportion of Jordaens's works, but these are usually representations of specific popular festivities such as Twelfth Night, or of well-known proverbs such as 'As the Old Sang, so the Young Pipe'. Although this drawing may have been made purely as an amusing genre scene, it is also possible that it represents the rather more obscure proverb, 'Musica Recreat Cor Hominis', which is known to have been the subject of a tapestry, woven in 1666 by Hendrik Rydams and Everaard Leyniers, after a design by Jordaens, for Leopold I of Austria. Apart from the absence of watercolor, it is stylistically comparable with the great modello depicting Twelfth Night ('The King Drinks'), in Antwerp,1 and should therefore also be dated circa 1640.
1. see d'Hulst, op. cit., cat. A156
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