print
- Museum number
- 1902,1011.6500
- Title
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Object: Rubens and Familiy
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Series: Houghton Gallery
- Description
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Family portrait of Jacob Jordaens with his parents and eight of his brothers and sisters (wrongly titled as a family portrait of Rubens); the family sitting at a round table with a basket of bread, the young painter seated at left with a lute on his lap, his father Jacob Jordaens Senior sitting behind the table, facing front and holding a glass, Jordaens' mother Barbara van Wolschaten at right and holding a small child while another caresses it, two younger women sitting either side of her, a maidservent behind holding a platter of grapes, a boy (one of twins Abraham and Isaac) in foreground stroking a dog beside him, three of the painter's dead siblings floating above as cherubs; after Jacob Jordaens; published state. 1780
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 566 millimetres
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Width: 403 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the Houghton Gallery, see 2005,U.109.
After the c.1615 painting by Jordaens, formerly at Houghton Hall, now in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, inv.no.GE484; see N. Gritsay, in 'Houghton Revisited: the Walpole masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage', exh.cat. Houghton Hall in King's Lynn (Norfolk), London, 2013, cat.no.20.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1902,1011.6500
