About this artwork
Following Rubens’s death in 1640, Jordaens was regarded as the greatest living painter in the Southern Netherlands. Deeply influenced by Rubens, Jordaens created genre scenes characterized by an often candid realism. This study from life depicts a figure familiar from other drawings and paintings by the artist from around 1640.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jacob Jordaens
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Title
- Nude Old Man Seated, Leaning on His Forearm, Facing Left
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Place
- Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1635–1645
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Medium
- Red and black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and dark brown ink: "Jacob Jordaens"; verso, center, in graphite: "Revr Brian/ 7"; center, in graphite: "6cff Fl S"
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Dimensions
- 34.4 × 21.7 cm (13 9/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. George B. Young; Helen Regenstein and H. Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowments
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Reference Number
- 1990.139
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/76291/manifest.json