Esau selling his birthright to Jacob (Genesis 25:29-34)

Details

Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)
Esau selling his birthright to Jacob (Genesis 25:29-34)
kneeling figures, for an Adoration of the Magi (?, verso)
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white
7½ x 8 in. (191 x 204 mm.)

Provenance

Possibly Pierre Crozat, with associated numbering '6'; Paris, 10 April - 13 May 1741, part of lots 856-857.
An unidentified collector's mark HF in a circle (not in Lugt).

Literature

R.-A. d'Hulst, Jordaens Drawings, Brussels, 1974, no. A377, figs. 396-397.

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Lot Essay

R.A. d'Hulst dates the present drawing to circa 1660, noting that although no painting of this subject is known the drawing can be connected to a series of compositional studies showing scenes from the Life of Jacob all of which date from the same period (R.A. d'Hulst, op. cit., nos. A378-382).

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