Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)

Mars and Venus, after Paolo Veronese

Details

Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)
Mars and Venus, after Paolo Veronese
with number '95T^bⁱ^c'
red chalk, brush and brown ink, watercolour, made up along the right-hand side
11½ x 8 3/8 in. (29.1 x 21.1 cm.)

Provenance

Johannes Rump (1861-1932), Copenhagen; Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, 25 May 1908, lot 279 (75DM to Hofstede de Groot).
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930) (L.561); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 4 November 1931, part of lot 318 ('13 B... Jordaens (?), Mars, Venus und Amor (nach P. Veronese)').
with Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 4 December 1931 (Inventory book: '1112. t. Jordaens n. Veronese Mars en Venus').

Literature

R.-A. d'Hulst, De tekeningen van Jacob Jordaens, Brussels, 1956, pp. 201, 263 and 354, no. 83, pl. 131.
R.-A. d'Hulst, Jordaens Drawings, Brussels, 1974, II, no. A 293, IV, pl. 309.

Exhibited

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Queen Christina of Sweden, 1966, no. 1044 and p. 486, under no. 1201.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 79, pl. 109 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Jacob Jordaens, 1968-69, no. 253.

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Lot Essay

The celebrated Veronese from which this derives is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Jordaens made this copy when it belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689).
Christina stayed in Antwerp in 1654 on her journey to Rome after her abdication. Here she had an inventory drawn up of her works of art, which included 'Une pièce de Mars et Venus, y dedans ung [sic] cheval, dudict Paulo Veronese'.
In 1648 she ordered a series of 35 pictures from Jordaens and she evidently knew the artist well enough for him to have had the chance to copy works from her collection.

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