Artist: Jacob Jordaens (1593 - 1678)
Nationality: Belgian
Movement: Flemish School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Jacob Jordaens studied under Adam Van Noort along with Peter Paul Rubens. After marrying his mentor’s daughter, Jordaens remained in his birthplace Antwerp and painted in typical Flemish style. He was commissioned by the King of Spain to create religious paintings and altarpieces in Catholic churches. In his later career, he painted historical works, the most famous was a fresco for the Huis ten Bosch. Jordaens also was a tapestry designer and engraver.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacob Jordaens, The Holy Family, circa 1614 - 1617
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Jacob Jordaens - Portrait of Elizabeth Jordaens, Daughter of the Artist c. 1640 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Flemish
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Jacob Jordaens, [Nosce te ipsum], 16th - 17th century
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Jacob Jordaens, Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle, circa 1625
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Jacob Jordaens Title: Two Studies of the Head of an Old Man with a
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Moses Striking Water from the Rock
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Holy Family with Shepherds, 1616 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)Oil on canvas, transferred from wood;
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Head of a Woman
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Venus and Eros Punishing a Satyr
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Jacob Jordaens - Job c. 1620 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Jacob Jordaens - Portrait of a Man c. 1624 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Flemish
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Jacob Jordaens - Portrait of a Man Looking Up 1640 chalk Arkansas Arts Center Dutch
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Ives Receiving Supplicants Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593-1678)Oil on paper, laid down on canvas; 10
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacob Jordaens, Famille Rubens..(The Rubens Family)...thirty third plate in the book...[Title in Russian and French] Imperatorskaya Ermitazhnaya Galereya ä GalÈrie ImpÈriale de l"Ermitage (Saint Petersburg: Gohier Desfontaines, 1847), 16th - 17th cent
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Jacob Jordaens - The Judgement of Paris c. 1620-25 Oil on canvas Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Flemish
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Jacob Jordaens - Two Studies of the Head of an Old Man c. 1630 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Flemish
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Jacob Jordaens - Portrait of a Girl 1640 chalk Arkansas Arts Center Dutch
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Jacob Jordaens - The Betrayal of Christ late 1650's oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Flemish
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Jacob Jordaens - Adoration of the Shepherds 1657 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Flemish
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Young Baptist and His Parents, early 1620s,
Museum of Fine Arts -
Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593-1678 Standing Youth Holding a Lantern (recto); Standing Cow (verso) mid 17th
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Jacob Jordaens - The Holy Family with St. John and His Parents 1615-17 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Flemish
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Pieter de Jode II, Portrait of Jaecques Jordaens, (after his self-portrait), 17th century
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Pieter de Jode I, Portrait of Jacques Jordaens, Peintre, 16th - 17th century
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Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593-1678 Bacchus Discovering Ariadne late 1640s Oil on canvas 121 x 127.3
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Jacob Jordaens, Flemish, 1593-1678 Portrait of a Young Married Couple about 1621-22 Oil on panel
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Jacob Eichholtz - Jacob Leman c. 1808 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Jacob Andreas Friderich (Fridrich), Caspar Jacob Huth, 17th - 18th century
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Jacob Maris, Harbor of Amsterdam, 1872
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John Wesley Jarvis - Jacob Houseman 1809 oil on wood panel The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Francisco Antolinez y Sarabia - Jacob and Rachel 1665-70 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Spanish
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Jacob Maris, View of Old Delft, circa 1865
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Jacob Landau, Is, 1964
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Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, A Cabin on the Hill, 17th century
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Hendrick ter Brugghen - Jacob reproaching Laban 1627 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Nicolas-Guy Brenet - Isaac Blessing Jacob 1768 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art French
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Amedeo Modigliani - Max Jacob (1876-1944) c. 1916-1917 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum Italian
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Jacob Landau, Palace, 1965
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Tom Knechtel, Jacob"s Ladder, 1978
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Jacob Kainen, Pushkin, 1973

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (6)
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Appleton Museum of Art: Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck, and their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Twenty-nine remarkable drawings by Rubens will make up the opening section of the exhibition. These sheets range over the full course of the artist’s long and distinguished career and include, most, if not all, of the many aspects of Ruben’s draft...
Bonnefanten Museum: The Rijksmuseum Comes to Maastricht: Works from the Southern Netherlands on Loan
Next year, the current loan scheme will be extended further due to the ongoing refurbishment of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which as a result will only be able to exhibit the highlights of 17th century art from the Northern Netherlands. ...
Cafe Gallery Project: Johannes Phokela Re-Working Iconic Images
Phokela links these re-interpretations of Dutch Golden Age painting with the development of the Enlightenment movement, and with the colonisation of the African continent. Whilst Phokela's work weaves a personal history into the canon of Dutch ...
Michael C. Carlos Museum: So Many Brilliant Talents: Art and Craft in the Age of Rubens
The period was one of extraordinary artistic achievement, with artists of the highest caliber working for the court, the Church and the upper middle class, says the exhibition curator, Dr. Ronni Baer, curator of European art at the Carlos Museum and...
Frick Collection: The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
The exhibition is accompanied by a presentation organized by The Frick Collection and offered at this venue only. Generously on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland from December 5, 2000 through January 21, 2001, is one of its most popul...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century, A Photographic Portrait of Germany
In an analytical style often associated ˜for better or for worse˜ with the Germanic temperament, August Sander set about to construct a comprehensive study of his fellow citizens by creating photographic portraits of the various social "types" of ...

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Jacob Jordaens - Olgas Gallery
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Jacob Jordaens (Getty Museum)
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