Circle of JACOB JORDAENS (1593-1678)

Details

Circle of JACOB JORDAENS (1593-1678)

The Infant Jupiter fed by the Goat Amalthea

oil on canvas
73¼ x 86½in. (186 x 220cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, Oct. 21, 1988, lot 100, as Jacob Jordaens and Studio ($55,000)

Literature

R.-A. d'Hulst in the catalogue of the exhibition, Jacob Jordaens, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, March 27-June 27, 1993, I, p. 154, under no. A45, note 4, as a copy

Exhibited

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Rubens y su Tempio, Oct.-Nov., 1977, no. 23

Lot Essay

The present composition is based on a painting by Jordaens, presently known only from a copy in the Staatliche Museen, Kassel. Paintings by Jordaens of the same subject but with somewhat varied compositions are in the Musée du Louvre, datable to circa 1630-35, and The Hermitage, St. Peterburg, which houses a modello for the lost original