ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB JORDAENS | THE DRUNKEN SILENUS, HALF LENGTH
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
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7,000 - 9,000 USD
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ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB JORDAENS
Antwerp 1593 - 1678
THE DRUNKEN SILENUS, HALF LENGTH
Red and black chalk, within brown ink framing lines
429 by 284 mm; 16⅞ by 11¼ in
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt (L.2356, cancelled);
Wilhelm Koller (d.1871), Vienna (L.2632);
Adalbert, Freiherr von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague (L.2773)
This grand and very well preserved drawing records the central section of the painting in the National Gallery, London, representing The Drunken Silenus, supported by satyrs.1 Though traditionally attributed to Rubens, the painting is now considered to have been produced in Rubens's studio, around 1620, by one or more of the young artists working there at the time, and is listed by the National Gallery as 'Possibly by Anthony van Dyck'. The style of the present drawing is very reminiscent of some works by Jacob Jordaens, and although he was already an independent master, registered with the Antwerp painters' guild, from 1616 on, he could easily still have seen and recorded the painting.
1. London, The National Gallery, inv. no. NG853