Collecting Passions – Old Master Paintings from an Important Private Collection
Study for the head of Saint Christopher
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120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Collecting Passions – Old Master Paintings from an Important Private Collection
Jacques Jordaens
Antwerp 1593–1678
Study for the head of Saint Christopher
oil on paper, laid down on panel
unframed: 37.2 x 26 cm.; 14⅝ x 10¼ in.
framed: 52.3 x 40.8 cm.; 20⅝ x 16⅛ in.
On the art market, New York, 1966;
Mr and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman, New York, by 1968;
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1973;
Private collection, Portugal;
With Schlichte Bergen, Amsterdam, by 1992;
With Noortman BV, Maastricht, by 1998, when exhibited at TEFAF, Maastricht;
From whom acquired by Eric (b. 1939) and Marie-Louise Albada Jelgersma, Switzerland;
By whom sold (‘The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection’), London, Christie’s, 6 December 2018, lot 8;
Where acquired by the present owner.
M. Jaffé, Jacob Jordaens 1593–1678, exh. cat., Ottawa 1968, p. 87, no. 29, reproduced p. 265;
J.S. Held, ‘Jordaens at Ottawa’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXI, no. 794, May 1969, London, p. 266;
R.-A. d'Hulst, ‘Exhibition Reviews: Jordaens’, in The Art Bulletin, vol. LI, December 1969, New York, p. 382, no. 29;
R.-A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, London 1982, p. 138 n. 17;
R.-A. d'Hulst, in Jacob Jordaens, 1593–1678, exh. cat., Antwerp 1993, vol. I, p. 148 n. 6, under no. A42, reproduced fig. A42b.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Jacob Jordaens 1593–1678, 29 November 1968 – 5 January 1969, no. 29.
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