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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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Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me

Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me (1615–16)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman (1640-1645)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Young Baptist and His Parents

The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Young Baptist and His Parents (early 1620s and 1650s)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
As the Old Sang, so Pipe the Young

As the Old Sang, so Pipe the Young (1638)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Meleager and Atalante

Meleager and Atalante (1617-1618)

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)
The Conversion of Saul with Christ and the Cross

The Conversion of Saul with Christ and the Cross (c. 1645–47)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
The Four Fathers of the Latin Church

The Four Fathers of the Latin Church

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Two Studies of the Head of an Old Man

Two Studies of the Head of an Old Man (c. 1630)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
The Apotheosis of Aeneas

The Apotheosis of Aeneas (1615 – 1619)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
Bergère versant du lait à un berger

Bergère versant du lait à un berger

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan (C.1616)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
The Feast of the Bean King

The Feast of the Bean King

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
The Tribute Money. Peter Finding the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish. Also called ‘The Ferry Boat to Antwerp’

The Tribute Money. Peter Finding the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish. Also called ‘The Ferry Boat to Antwerp’ (1616 – 1634)

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)
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