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Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and dark brown ink: "Jacob Jordaens"; verso, center, in graphite: "Revr Brian/ 7"; center, in graphite: "6cff Fl S"
Provenance
Art Gallery of Jean Willems, Brussels, by 1966. Sold by A. De Heuvel, Brussels, to Professor and Mrs. Roger Adolf d’Hulst, Dilbeek, Belgium, 1966; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Exhibition history
Antwerp, Rubenshuis, Tekeningen van Jacob Jordaens 1593–1678, Oct. 8–Dec. 4, 1966, p. 101, cat. 86 (ill.); also Museum Boyman-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Dec. 17, 1966–Feb. 5, 1967. Antwerp, Rubenshuis, Rubens en Zijn Tijd: Tekeningen uit Belgische Verzamelingen, July 17–Oct. 17, 1971, pp. 50–51, cat. 29. Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 12; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991. Wellesley, Mass., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens, 15 Oct.–28 Nov. 1993, plate. 28, cat. No. 28, pp. 167–8 ; also The Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 4–Feb. 20, 1994. [exhibited in Cleveland only, per catalogue] Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 116-17, 118-19 (ill.), 304, cat. 36, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Held, Julius. “Tekeningen van Jacob Jordaens,” Kunstchronik IV (1967), pp. 95. Roger Adolf d’Hulst, Jordaens Drawings, Monographs of the Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de XVIde en XVIIde Eeuw, 4 vols. (London and New York: Phaidon, 1974), vol. I, no. A148 (fig. 161), pp. 241–42; vol. III, fig. 161. Roger Adolf d’Hulst, Jacob Jordaens (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982), fig. 148, pp. 312. Sotheby’s, London, Old Master Painting & British Paintings, 7 July 2011, under lot 191 (Mercury, Argus and Io), pp. 108-110. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), cat. no. 83, pp. 201, 206–207 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacob Jordaens / Flemish, 1593-1678
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- Red and black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34.4 × 21.7 cm (13 9/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. George B. Young; Helen Regenstein and H. Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowments
- Accession no.
- 1990.139
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