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Jacob Jordaens

Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries.

Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640—the year Rubens died—he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general. However, he is best known today for his numerous large genre scenes based on proverbs in the manner of his contemporary Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicting The King Drinks and As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young. Jordaens' main artistic influences, besides Rubens and the Brueghel family, were northern Italian painters such as Jacopo Bassano, Paolo Veronese, and Caravaggio.

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Moses Striking Water from the Rock

Moses Striking Water from the Rock (1645–1650)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Industry en Trade Promote the Flowering of Art

Industry en Trade Promote the Flowering of Art (1663-1665)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Martyrium des Heiligen Quirinus von Malmédy

Martyrium des Heiligen Quirinus von Malmédy

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
A Merry Company

A Merry Company (about 1644)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Mars standing

Mars standing

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Flagellation of the wrongdoers

Flagellation of the wrongdoers

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Jupiter Nourished by the Goat Almathea

Jupiter Nourished by the Goat Almathea (1652)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Study of a Young Girl Drinking from a Glass

Study of a Young Girl Drinking from a Glass (ca. 1640–45)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
King Candaules of Lydia Showing his Wife to Gyges

King Candaules of Lydia Showing his Wife to Gyges (1646)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Le Martyre de Sainte Apolline

Le Martyre de Sainte Apolline (1628)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Portrait of Catharina Behaghel

Portrait of Catharina Behaghel (1635)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1652)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Le Repos de Diane

Le Repos de Diane (1623 - 1678)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Saint Martin of Tours Healing the Servant of Tetrodius

Saint Martin of Tours Healing the Servant of Tetrodius (c. 1630)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Alter Mann von vorne, in die Höhe blickend

Alter Mann von vorne, in die Höhe blickend

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
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