Lot 31
  • 31

STUDIO OF JACOB JORDAENS ANTWERP 1593 - 1678 | The interrupted banquet

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • The interrupted banquet
  • Oil on canvas 
  • 163 x 235 cm

Provenance

Alphonse Allard Collection, Brussels;
Comtesse de X..., her sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 19 June 1934, lot 32, 12.500 francs to M. Chausson (as by Jordaens);
Château de Pontchartrain, Jouars-Pontchartrain.

Catalogue Note

This large composition shows a rarely depicted subject in Jordaens's oeuvre. A drawing entitled 'Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint', recorded in Brussels, shows a possible similar subject (Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, inv. no. 1948; watercolour and gouache). It illustrates an old French saying, that if you try too much at the same time, you will not succeed in anything.