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As Werner Sumowski pointed out, this is a free copy after apainting to Jacob Jordaens (fig. 1) in the Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Kassel, datable to circa 1620, R.-A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, Stuttgart and London, 1982, p. 94, fig. 59. Ebbinge Wubben was the first to attribute this drawing to Eeckhout, an attribution endorsed by Professor Sumowski, who compares it to the drawing of Eliezer and Rebecca in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, W. Sumowski, op.cit., no. 637.
The Satyr and the Peasant was one of Eeckhout's favourite subjects and the present drawing was probably executed in homage to Jordaens' previous treatment of it. Eeckhout painted the same subject in a picture dated 1653, last seen at Galeries Fièves, Brussels, 22-3 December 1950, lot 245 (W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt Schüler, Landau, 1983, II, no. 416, illustrated), for which there is a preparation drawing in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and two others in the British Museum, London, W. Sumowski, op. cit., 1980, nos. 625-7. Eeckhout took up the subject again in his picture in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, W. Sumowski, op. cit., 1983, no. 421, illustrated. The preparatory drawing for that picture is in the Fondation Custodia, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, W. Sumowski, op.cit., 1980, no. 628.
The scene of the Satyr and the Peasant is taken from Aesop's Satyrus and Viator, later re-written by La Fontaine: a peasant, invited by a satyr and his family for dinner on a cold night, first blows on his hands to warm them and then blows on his hot soup to make it colder. The satyr interrupts him and says: 'Be off, I won't have a guest who blows both hot and cold'.
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck kindly pointed out that the unidentified collector's number verso is in sequence with the unidentified 'No.663.' on a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1993, lot 13, illustrated.
The Satyr and the Peasant was one of Eeckhout's favourite subjects and the present drawing was probably executed in homage to Jordaens' previous treatment of it. Eeckhout painted the same subject in a picture dated 1653, last seen at Galeries Fièves, Brussels, 22-3 December 1950, lot 245 (W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt Schüler, Landau, 1983, II, no. 416, illustrated), for which there is a preparation drawing in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and two others in the British Museum, London, W. Sumowski, op. cit., 1980, nos. 625-7. Eeckhout took up the subject again in his picture in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, W. Sumowski, op. cit., 1983, no. 421, illustrated. The preparatory drawing for that picture is in the Fondation Custodia, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, W. Sumowski, op.cit., 1980, no. 628.
The scene of the Satyr and the Peasant is taken from Aesop's Satyrus and Viator, later re-written by La Fontaine: a peasant, invited by a satyr and his family for dinner on a cold night, first blows on his hands to warm them and then blows on his hot soup to make it colder. The satyr interrupts him and says: 'Be off, I won't have a guest who blows both hot and cold'.
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck kindly pointed out that the unidentified collector's number verso is in sequence with the unidentified 'No.663.' on a drawing by Abraham Bloemaert sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1993, lot 13, illustrated.