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Jacob and Esau
Inscriptions
Inscribed on mount, upper right, in pen and black ink: "no. 43"; on mount, lower right, in graphite: "J. Jordaens fL / XL 129"; verso of mount, upper left, in graphite: "__X / AS" (partially obscured by hinge); lower left, in graphite: "18,20/ ¾ Hg"; lower left, in pen and brown ink: “2 ·2”; verso, lower right, in graphite: "J. Jordaens."
Provenance
Sold, Bonhams, London, July 4, 2012, lot 1. Sold by Jean-Luc Baroni, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., 2013; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 158-59, 164-65 (ill.), 304, 323, cat. 58, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacob Jordaens / Flemish, 1593-1678
- Date
- c. 1655
- Medium
- Charcoal, pen and brown ink, and brush and brown washes, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on pieced cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 25.4 × 29.7 cm (10 × 11 3/4 in.); Secondary/tertiary supports: 32.2 × 36.6 cm (12 11/16 × 14 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- Flanders
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2014.1
More by Jacob Jordaens in museum collections
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Open-access museum record · AT-00006128
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