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Jacob Jordaens - Mercury playing Argus to sleep with his flute, with Io transformed into a white heifer

Mercury playing Argus to sleep with his flute, with Io transformed into a white heifer (1648)

Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)
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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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Saint Martin of Tours Healing the Servant of Tetrodius (c. 1630)

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The Adoration of the Magi

The Adoration of the Magi

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Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman (1640-1645)

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Man Kneeling, Facing Right

Man Kneeling, Facing Right (1630–1635)

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Mars standing

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Die Heilige Familie mit Elisabeth und dem Johannesknaben

Die Heilige Familie mit Elisabeth und dem Johannesknaben (ca 1640)

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‘It is good candles which light the way’

‘It is good candles which light the way’ (1640s)

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Head of a bearded man, possibly an apostle

Head of a bearded man, possibly an apostle

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Antwerp Hospital Nuns

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Bacchantenzug (Triumph des Bacchus)

Bacchantenzug (Triumph des Bacchus)

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The Musical Contest between Apollo And Pan

The Musical Contest between Apollo And Pan

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The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (c. 1620-1621)

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The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds

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The Holy Family by Candlelight

The Holy Family by Candlelight (between circa 1621 and circa 1622)

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The Betrayal of Christ

The Betrayal of Christ (late 1650s)

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