Discover print artist, painter, draftsperson Jacques Jordaens

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: Jordaens, Jacob (I)
Jordaens always signed his paintings, as well as his letters in Flemish or French with 'Jacques' [Jaecques] (exh. cat. Brussel/Kassel 2012, Introduction); also see the remarks on this topic by Prof. H. Vlieghe in: The Burlington Magazine 155 (2013) no. 1318, p. 58.

Qualifications: print artist, painter, draftsperson, designer
concerning Jordaens' capacity as a designer of tapestries see the estate inventory of Michiel Wauters of 16-10-1679: enumeration of the cartoons Wauters bought from Jordaens estate (Duverger 1984-2004, vol. 10 [1999] no. 3441, p. 497)

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Antwerp (city) 1593-05-19
baptized on 20 May in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp; Dirck de Moij was his godfather and Elisabeth van Driel his godmother

Deceased: Antwerp (city) 1678-10-18

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Grandson of Pieter Jordaens and Anne Faulx; oldest son of Jacob Jordaens (lakenkoopman = cloth merchant) and Barbara van Wolschaten (baptized in St. Walburga 6 February 1569); married on 2 September 1590 in Our Lady’s Cathedral); Jacob had a great many brothers and sisters: : 1) Anne (born 7 May 1595), 2) Marie (born 20 October 1596), 3) Anna (born 21 December 1597); 4) Catharina ('geestelijke dochter', born 20-12-1600, still alive in 1671); 5) Magdalena (beguine, born 25 July 1603- died 25 April 1667); 6) Elisabeth (born 1 December 1605); 7) Abraham; 8) Isaac (born 24 June 1608); 9) Susanna (born 27 February 1610); 10) Elisabeth (24 August 1613, [beguine in Breda] - Breda 21 July 1645); from the marriage of 8) [Isaac and Catharina] Arnolf Frans (born 17 September 1635) , 1653 pupil with Jacob I, 1664 free master, Jacob's uncle Simon (brother of Jacob, his father) (born 25 September 1564) married ~ January 1592 with Maria De Bodt, with whom he got eight children 1. Anna (*15-11-1592); 2) Anna (*18-10-1593); 3) Elisabeth (24 June 1595) married with Pieter Goetkint; 4) Catharina (*20-8-1597), married with Pieter van den Broeck; 5) Simon (born 4 april 1600); 6) Jacob (*30-6-1603), married with Susanna Goris; 7) Maria (*31-1-1608). Jacob married 15 June 1616 to Catharina van Noordt (24 february 1595-17 April 1659), daughter of Adam van Noordt . They had three children: 1) Elisabeth (26 June 1617-18 October 1678, one hour after her father) ; 2) Jacob (II) (2 July 1625 - after 1650 in Denmark); 3) Anna 23 October 1629) (Génard 1852. NB: dates of birth are almost always dates of baptism, which implies that the actual date of birth can be a different date).

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Antwerpen (stad) 1607 - 1616
1607 apprentice of Adam van Noordt; 1615 master ('waterscilder') in the Guild of St. Luke; married on 15 May 1616 to Catharina, eldest daughter of his master Adam van Noort.
Antwerpen (stad) 1620-09-28
dean of the Guild of St.Luke, despite a controversy between the city and Jordaens
Antwerpen (stad) 1634 - 1638
worked on the decoration of the Pompa Introitus of the Cardinal-Infant Ferdinand: the triumphal arch ('Filippusboog') together with Cornelis de Vos in the Huidenvetterstraat (designed by Rubens); worked 1636-1638 under Rubens on the decoration of the Torre de la Parada, Madrid
Antwerpen (stad) 1649 - 1652
worked on his assignment for the 'Oranjezaal' in the Hague; painted 35 paintings for Queen Christina of Sweden (Corpus Rembrandt Paintings 2005)
Antwerpen (stad) 1654 - 1660
painted 12 scenes of the Passion of Christ for king Carl Gustavus of Sweden
Amsterdam (stad) 1661
received the commission to paint the history of 'Claudius Civilis' for the Amsterdam City Hall on Dam square; brought the paintings personally to Amsterdam (Saur 2013)
Antwerpen (stad) 1670
together with his daughter Elisabeth and two maids admitted to partake in the Supper in the Calvinist congregation of Antwerp
Putte (Noord-Brabant) 1678-10-18
Jordaens and his daughter Elisabeth died and were buried in Putte, across the border in the Northern Netherlands, on the Calvinist cemetery.

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Noort, Adam van
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Berckman, Hendrick
Boeckhorst, Jan
Bruyn van Aelst, Jan de
Carré, Hendrik (I)
Cooghen, Leendert van der
Donker, Pieter
Faydherbe, Rombout
Gulinckx, Jan
Jordaens, Arnoldus
Jordaens, Jacob (II)
Kaersgieter, Jan de (I)
Liberechts, Marcellis
Mayr, Johann Ulrich
Rem, Zacharias
Ruyven, Pieter van
Verbraken, Daniel
Vries, Guilliam de

also teacher of Orliens de Meyer, Andries Snyders, Conraet Hansens, Adriaen de Muncknick and Pauwels Goetvelt (between 18 September 1646-18 September 1647) (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961)
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Volmarijn, Pieter Crijnse
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Bassano, Jacopo
Caravaggio
Tiziano
Veronese, Paolo
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Danhauser, Joseph

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, Christian religious scene, history (genre), mythology, portrait, landscape (genre), animal painting (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint
Product: carpet design

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Sint-Lucasgilde (Antwerpen)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 110 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Meyssens 1649 , not paginated
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 154-158, 171, 350; vol. 2 (1719), p. 93, 131, 275-276, 290, vol. 3 (1721), p. 383 (as: Jaques Jordaens, Jakob Jordaans)
Antwerp 1857/1863 , p. 201-206
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 765-772
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 19 (1926), p. 151-155
Granberg 1929-1931 , vol. 2, p. 16
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 397
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 9 [1953], p. 223-228
Martin 1970 (Flemish School) , p. 86-87
Witt Checklist 1978
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 3 (1987), p. 177-178 no. 687; vol. 4 (1989), p. 14, no. 889; p. 290, no. 1079; vol. 5 (1991), p. 399-400, no 1478; vol. 7 (1993), p. 18, no. 1912; vol. 8 (1995), p. 189-190, no. 2397; vol. 10, p. 25-26, no. 3068 (no. 1079: testament of his mother Maria de Bodt; no 1478: testimonial regarding the sale of offensive prints in Antwerp; no. 1912: last will and testament of Maria de Bodt;)
Mai/Vlieghe 1992 , p. 151-160 (R. Klessmann, 'Jacob Jordaens. Zur Ikonographie und Bildregie seiner Historienbilder')
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings 1982-2015 , vol. 4 (2005), p. 16-17 (on the commission Jordaens received from the Swedish Court)
Golahny/Mochizuki/Vergara 2006 , p. 375-384 (M. Plomp, 'Pictorial archives: "Jordaens" in Delft')
Saur 1992- , vol. 78 (2013), p. 312 (text: Birgit Ulrike Münch)
Bikker et al. 2016 , p. 225-232 (H. Vlieghe, 'Jacob Jordaens in het huishouden van Jan Steen')
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

P. Génard, 'Notice sur Jacques Jordaens', Le Messager des Sciences historiques des Arts et de la Bibliographie de Belgique 1852, p. 202-244
G. Upmark, ‘Ein Besuch in Holland 1687 aus den Reiseschilderungen des schwedischen Architekten Nicodemus Tessin d.J.’, Oud Holland 18 (1900), p. 117-128; 144-152 and 199-210, esp. p. 147 (as: Giordans)
Th. von Frimmel, ‘Kleine Funde zu Jakob Jordaens', Blätter für Gemäldekunde 1/2 (1904), p. 33-34 [the so-called four Evangelists in the Louvre]
Th. von Frimmel, 'Zur Darstellung der vier Evangelisten des Jacob Jordaens im Louvre', Blätter für Gemäldekunde 3/7 (1907), p. 129-130
R.-A. d'Hulst, 'Jacob Jordaens. Schets van een chronologie zijner werken ontstaan voor 1618', Gentse Bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis 14 (1953), p. 89-138 (résumé français)
R.-A. d'Hulst, 'Jacob Jordaens- Apollo beurtelings in strijd met Marsyas en Pan', Bulletin van de Koninklijke Musea van Belgie, 10 (1960), p. 29-36
J.S. Held, 'Notes on Jacob Jordaens', Oud Holland 80 (1965), p. 112-122
W. Stechow, 'A modello by Jacob Jordaens', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 16 (1965), p. 67-79
R.-A. d'Hulst, 'Jacob Jordaens en de Schilderkamer van de Antwerpse Academie', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1967), p. 131-151
A.P. de Mirimonde, 'Les sujets de musique chez Jacob Jordaens', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1969), p. 201-246
J. Philippe, 'Nouvelles découvertes sur Jordaens', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1970), p. 213-232
N. de Poorter, 'Over de weduwe Geubels en de datering van Jordaens tapijtenreeks "De taferelen uit het landleven" ', Gentse Bijdrage tot de Kunstgeschiedenis en de Oudheidkunde 25 (1979-1980), p. 209-224
R.-A. d'Hulst, 'Jordaens Drawings: Supplement I', Master Drawings 18 (1980), p. 360-370
K. Nelson, 'Jacob Jordaens' Drawings for Tapestry', Master Drawings 23-24 (1985-'86), p. 214-228
E. Wyss, 'An Unexpected Classical Source for Jacob Jordaens', Mercury no. 5 (1987), p. 29-35
K. Nelson, 'Jacob Jordaens: family portraits', Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 8 (1989), p. 105-119
R.-A. D'Hulst, 'Jordaens Drawings: Supplement II', Master Drawings 28 (1990), p. 142-172
I. Németh, 'Het spreekwoord "Zo d'ouden zongen, zo pijpen de jongen" in schilderijen van Jacob Jordaens en Jan Steen: motieven en associaties', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1990), p. 271-286
D. van Eldere, 'Ovidiaanse thematiek in het werk van Jacob Jordaens', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1992), p. 91-163
R.-A. d' Hulst, H. Devisscher and N. de Poorter, Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). vol. 2: tekeningen en prenten, Antwerp 1993
X. Egorova, 'Changements autographes dans les peintures de Jordaens conservées au Musée Pouchkine de Moscou (d'après les examens radiographiques)', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1993), p. 165-185
E. Duverger, D. Maufort, 'Het Antwerpse kunstenaarsgeslacht Tijssens (Thyssens) uit de zeventiende eeuw en het begin van de achtiende eeuw en zijn stamvader Augustijn Tijssens de Oude', Gentse Bijdragen 31 (1996), p. 127-207 [archival sources pertaining to Jordaens and family]
R.J.A. te Rijdt, 'Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) en Jacob de Wit (1695-1754)', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 23 (July 2001), p. 33-37
M. Plomp, 'Pictorial archives: "Jordaens" in Delft', in: A. Golahny et al., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 375-384
K. Brosens, '"The story of Theodosius the Younger": a rediscovered tapestry set by Jacob Jordaens and his studio', The Burlington Magazine 149 (June 2007), p. 376-382
E. McGrath, 'Jacob Jordaens and Moses's Ethiopian wife', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Instiutues 70 (2007), p. 247-285
M. Ceuterick, 'Jacob Jordaens en Een Nieu Liedeken van Callo. Een onverwacht dubbelzinnig gebruik van een zeventiende-eeuws Zuid-Nederlands zegelied', De Zeventiende Eeuw 30 (2014), p. 214-242

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Archive location: archief Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff
Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
Gerson Digital : Sweden

External links: this artist in the British Museum
this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1992-01-11; Last modified date: 2023-07-08

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Trineke Kamerling 05 January 2022: Naamvarianten Jordaens, Jacques
Jordaens always signed his paintings, as well as his letters in Flemish or French with 'Jacques' [Jaecques] (exh. cat. Brussel/Kassel 2012, Introduction); also see the remarks on this topic by Prof. H. Vlieghe in: The Burlington Magazine 155 (2013) no. 1318, p. 58.

Het Rijksmuseum heeft besloten voortaan Jacques Jordaens als voorkeursnaam te hanteren in al haar uitingen. Zie genoemde bronvermeldingen en de website van KMSK te Brussel https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collectie/artist/jordaens-jacques-1.

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