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Studio of Jacob Jordaens Antwerp 1593 - 1678
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Description
- Jacob, the elder Jordaens
- The Four Fathers of the Latin Church
- oil on canvas
Provenance
J.C.W. Sawbridge-Erle-Drax, Esq. Olantigh Towers, Wye, Kent, by 1935;
His sale, London, Christie's, May 10, 1935, lot 104, for £60, 8 shillings to Harris;
Tomas Harris, London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, December 18, 1953, no. 129, for £252 to Reder;
Central Picture Galleries (Oskar Klein), New York, by 1954;
From whom purchased by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1954;
By whom given to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971;
Anonymous sale ("Property of the Chrysler Museum, Norfold, Virginia, sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund"), New York, Sothebys, June 2, 1989, lot 8 (unsold).
Exhibited
Portland, Oregon, Portland Museum of Art; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco, California, Palace of the Legion of Honor; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Gallery of Art; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., March 2, 1956-April 14, 1957, pp. 20-21, cat no. 11, illustrated p. 66;
Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1963, no. 10.
Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Baroque Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1963, no. 10.
Literature
M. Rooses, L'Oeuvre de P.P. Rubens, vol. II, Antwerp 1888, pp. 194-196, illustrated pl. 368;
L. van Puyvelde, "Die Vier Kirhcenlehrer von Jordaens," in Pantheon, vol. XVIII, 1936, pp. 360-362, illustrated p. 360;
L. van Puyvelde, Jordaens, Paris 1953, pp. 123-124, illustrated p. 137, fig. 82 (as the prime version of the composition);
M. Jaffé, Jacob Jordaens, exhibition catalogue, Ottowa 1968, under cat. no. 69 (as a version by Jordaens of the Stonyhurst painting);
The Chrysler Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1982, p. 39;
J. C. Harrison, "The Seventeenth Century in the North," in The Chrysler Museum Gallery Guide, 1983, no. 12, illustrated;
R.A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, Ithaca 1982, p.132;
R.-A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) Tableaux et tapisseries, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1993, p. 142, under cat. no. A40.
L. van Puyvelde, "Die Vier Kirhcenlehrer von Jordaens," in Pantheon, vol. XVIII, 1936, pp. 360-362, illustrated p. 360;
L. van Puyvelde, Jordaens, Paris 1953, pp. 123-124, illustrated p. 137, fig. 82 (as the prime version of the composition);
M. Jaffé, Jacob Jordaens, exhibition catalogue, Ottowa 1968, under cat. no. 69 (as a version by Jordaens of the Stonyhurst painting);
The Chrysler Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1982, p. 39;
J. C. Harrison, "The Seventeenth Century in the North," in The Chrysler Museum Gallery Guide, 1983, no. 12, illustrated;
R.A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, Ithaca 1982, p.132;
R.-A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) Tableaux et tapisseries, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1993, p. 142, under cat. no. A40.
Catalogue Note
The present painting repeats in composition, with slight differences, a work by Jordaens at Stonyhurst College, Blackburn, Lancaster (see R.-A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, London 1982, p. 132, illustrated fig. 98).