Jacob JORDAENS (Anvers 1593-1678) et atelier

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Jacob JORDAENS (Anvers 1593-1678) et atelier
Adoration of the Magi Black pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash and white oil on seven assembled leaves mounted on canvas 52 x 65cm Restoration mainly along the seams, some posterior feathering and small tears restored Provenance - Anonymous sale, Paris, Hotel George V, 17 December 1993, Paris, n°53 ; - Paris, gallery P. and J.-F HEIM in 1993 - Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 26, 1999, n°153 Our drawing is very close to The Adoration of the Magi from the Thomas Henry Art Museum in Cherbourg-Octeville, with some variations. Apparently an X-ray of the painting of Cherbourg was made and the variants, notably the head of a young woman near the kneeling Magus, is found underneath the repaints. (see exhibition catalogue " Jordaens (1593-1678) ", Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, 19 September 2013-19 January 2014 ; p.146, note 2). The final version of this very accomplished preparatory work is kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cherbourg. It was exhibited to the public in 2013 at the Petit-Palais at the end of the first retrospective devoted to Jordaens " La Glory of Anvers ", a major event in the field of ancient painting. The variant concerns in particular the background, where the artist adds camel profiles reminiscent of the Adoration of the Magi exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, executed by Rubens, with whom Jordaens collaborated from 1620 to 1640. The Adoration of the Magi is a biblical passage from an episode of the Gospel according to Matthew (2, 1-12), which relates the visit of the astronomers Gaspard, Melchior and Balthazar to the Child Jesus. The scene takes place in a landscape devoid of scenery, except for the upper right-hand part of the painting in which part of the architectural structure of the stable is integrated. The visual field is narrowed, focusing on the main characters of the biblic
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