Circle of Jacob Jordaens

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Description

Jacob, the elder Jordaens
a peasant eating porridge at a table together with a mother and child and other figures drinking and eating, dogs in the foreground
oil on canvas

Provenance

Henri-Joseph Geelhand, Antwerp (1760-1819), Seigneur de Merksem and Dambrugge;
Thence by descent to his eldest son, Joseph-Pierre Geelhand de la Bistrate, Antwerp (1786-1877);
Thence by descent to his sister, Angélique Geelhand (1820-1888);
Thence by descent to Ferdinand-Marie Baron van Reynegom de Buzet et d'Herenthout, Antwerp (1888-1911);
Thence by descent to his daughter Adeline van Reynegom de Buzet et d'Herenthout, Chateau de Bloemendael (1862-1900);
In the same family since 1900, and thence by descent (all the above according to information provided by the owner).

Catalogue Note

There are a few other versions of this composition known, one with a similar size is in the Gemäldegalerie, Kassel (inv. no. 105), and one from the studio of Jordaens, which is signed and dated 1652, is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg (inv. no. 102).