Lot Essay
As Jordaens' inscription indicates, the drawing comprises five heads which he saw in The Hague, in a church and elsewhere, and drew from memory in May 1664
Details
Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)
The Heads of two grotesque old Men, two Crones and a young Woman
dated and inscribed 'Verscheyden Vreemde backhuyse gesien inde Haeg,/in de kercks En op andere Plaetsen bij memorie/geteeken in may 1664'; red and black chalk, brown wash, pen and brown ink
216 x 143 mm.
The Heads of two grotesque old Men, two Crones and a young Woman
dated and inscribed 'Verscheyden Vreemde backhuyse gesien inde Haeg,/in de kercks En op andere Plaetsen bij memorie/geteeken in may 1664'; red and black chalk, brown wash, pen and brown ink
216 x 143 mm.
Provenance
Alfred Brod, 1963
George and Maida Abrams
George and Maida Abrams
Literature
R.A. d'Hulst, Jordaens Drawings, Brussels, 1974, II, no. A401, IV, fig. 422
Exhibited
Hanover, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; Wellesley, Wellesley College Museum; Providence, Museum of Art; Storrs, Museum of Art, Dutch Drawings from the Abrams Collection, 1969, no. 7, illustrated