Monday, May 9, 2022

Jacob Jordaens
 (1593 -1678) 

Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Jordaens

Portrait of the artist with his family
Circa 1621
Oil on canvas
181 x 187 cm
Museo del Prado
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-painters-family/01ee4803-c9cf-45a2-810c-6cac7f63d31f

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