Studio of Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)

Flora, Silenus and Zephirus

Details

Studio of Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)
Flora, Silenus and Zephirus
oil on canvas
55 5/8 x 49 3/8in. (141.4 x 125.4cm.), including an addition(?) at the top of 4¼in. (10.8cm.)

Provenance

John, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), or John, 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute (1744-1814), and by descent at Luton Park (1797-9 inventory, in the Writing Room; 1799 inventory, p. 64; 1800 inventory, [no. 87], in the Reading Room) and elsewhere.

Literature

[K. Armet], Mount Stuart, Rothesay, n.d., p. 7.
G.F. Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England, London, 1838, III, p. 311, 'The heads of the nymphs are far nobler, and the impasto more solid and more careful than usual, without losing his usual clearness.'
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, III, p. 475.
J.P. Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures lent for Exhibition by the Marquis of Bute, K.T., London, 1883, no. 208.

Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1847, no. 63.
Bethnal Green, 1883, no. 208.
Glasgow, 1884.

Lot Essay

In 1967, Professor Jaffé noted that the traditional title, the Triumph of Silenus, was erroneous. A version of the composition owned by Mrs Paul Parmentier at Knocke in 1905, accepted as autograph by M. Rooses (M. Rooses, Jacob Jordaens, His Life and Work, London and New York, 1908, illustrated p. 233), is regarded by d'Hulst as a studio work: other apparently inferior variants are at Montauban and Pommersfelden.

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