Lot no. 1143
Jacob Jordaens
1593 Antwerpen - 1678 Antwerpen
Studie eines alten Mannes
Öl auf Leinwand. 50 x 44,5 cm.
Gutachten
Ludwig Burchard (in Kopie).
Provenienz
Sammlung Adler, Asch (Böhmen).
- Auktion Lepke, Berlin, 30.4.1929, Lot 49. - Kunstsalon Franke, Leipzig, abgebildet im Galeriekatalog 1940 (verso auf dem Keilrahmen Reste eines Galerieetiketts).
– Deutsche Privatsammlung.
Literatur
Roger Adolf d’Hulst: Jacob Jordaens, London 1982, S. 114, Abb. S. 115, Nr. 81.
Jacob Jordaens verwandte die vorliegende Ölstudie eines bärtigen alten Mannes für sein monumentales Gemälde „Der Hl. Petrus findet den Zinsgroschen“, eines der größten und bedeutendsten Werke des flämischen Meisters, das heute im Kopenhagener Statens Museum for Kunst aufbewahrt wird. Dort findet sich der Kopf des alten Mannes rechts neben dem Mast eines mit Tieren und Menschen hochbeladenen Bootes wieder. Neben der zentralen Darstellung des Bootes rückt das eigentliche Bildsujet des Petrus', der den Zinsgroschen im Maul eines Fisches findet, an den rechten Seitenrand. Unser bärtiger alter Mann ist einer der wenigen Figuren der Komposition, die sich diesem Hauptgeschehen jedoch zuwenden.
R. A. d'Hulst betont in seiner 1982 erschienenen Monografie zu Jordaens die besondere Bedeutung von Kopfstudien im Schaffensprozess des Künstlers und sieht dafür gerade im Kopenhagener Bild ein herausragendes Beispiel: „No painting by Jordaens illustrates better the significant use he made of studies of heads“. Unsere virtuose Kopfstudie eines bärtigen alten Mannes, deren Standort d'Hulst noch unbekannt war, taucht nun erstmals aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung wieder auf.
Jacob Jordaens
1593 Antwerp - 1678 Antwerp
Study of an Old Man
Oil on canvas. 50 x 44.5 cm.
Expertise
Ludwig Burchard (in Kopie).
Provenance
Previously Kunstsalon Franke, Leipzig (with the remains of a gallery label to the reverse of the stretcher).
Literature
Roger Adolf d’Hulst: Jacob Jordaens, London 1982, S. 114, Abb. S. 115, Nr. 81.
Jacob Jordaens used this oil study of a bearded old man for his monumental work The Apostle Peter Finding the Tribute Money in the Mouth of the Fish, which is considered one of this Flemish artist's most important works and is now kept in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.
Here, the old man's head can be seen to the right of the mast of a boat laden with people and animals.
The actual subject of the painting - Peter finding the tribute money in the mouth of a fish - is depicted beside the boat, relegated to the right edge of the painting.
The elderly man depicted in this study is one of the few figures actually shown observing the main motif.
In his monograph on the artist published in 1982, R. A. d'Hulst emphasises the importance of such studies in the artist's creative process, and describes the painting in Copenhagen as an excellent example of this: No painting by Jordaens illustrates better the significant use he made of studies of heads.
This fine study of the head of an old man, the whereabouts of which were still unknown to d'Hulst, has now been rediscovered in a German private collection.
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Drawings, watercolours and pastels
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