Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left by Jacob Jordaens
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Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left

Jacob Jordaens · c. 1640

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Art Gallery of Jean Willems, Brussels, by 1966.  Sold by A. De Heuvel, Brussels, to Professor and Mrs. Roger Adolf d’Hulst, Dilbeek, Belgium, 1966; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Antwerp, Rubenshuis, Tekeningen van Jacob Jordaens 1593–1678, Oct. 8–Dec. 4, 1966, p. 101, cat. 86 (ill.); also Museum Boyman-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Dec. 17, 1966–Feb. 5, 1967.
  • Antwerp, Rubenshuis, Rubens en Zijn Tijd: Tekeningen uit Belgische Verzamelingen, July 17–Oct. 17, 1971, pp. 50–51, cat. 29.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991–Jan. 5, 1992, n.p., cat. 12; also New York, Frick Collection, Apr. 23–July 7, 1991.
  • Wellesley, Mass., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens, 15 Oct.–28 Nov. 1993, plate. 28, cat. No. 28, pp. 167–8 ; also The Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 4–Feb. 20, 1994.  [exhibited in Cleveland only, per catalogue]
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 116-17, 118-19 (ill.), 304, cat. 36, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Held, Julius. “Tekeningen van Jacob Jordaens,” Kunstchronik IV (1967), pp. 95.
  • Roger Adolf d’Hulst, Jordaens Drawings, Monographs of the Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de XVIde en XVIIde Eeuw, 4 vols. (London and New York: Phaidon, 1974), vol. I, no. A148 (fig. 161), pp. 241–42; vol. III, fig. 161.
  • Roger Adolf d’Hulst, Jacob Jordaens (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982), fig. 148, pp. 312.
  • Sotheby’s, London, Old Master Painting & British Paintings, 7 July 2011, under lot 191 (Mercury, Argus and Io), pp. 108-110.
  • Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), cat. no. 83, pp. 201, 206–207 (ill.).

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