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    Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left
    Jacob Jordaens. Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left, c. 1640. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00003293

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    Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left

    by Jacob Jordaens

    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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