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Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)

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Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)
Esau selling his birthright to Jacob (Genesis 25:29-34)
kneeling figures, for an Adoration of the Magi (?, verso)
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white
7½ x 8 in. (191 x 204 mm.)

Possibly Pierre Crozat, with associated numbering '6'; Paris, 10 April - 13 May 1741, part of lots 856-857.
An unidentified collector's mark HF in a circle (not in Lugt).

Specialist note

R.A. d'Hulst dates the present drawing to circa 1660, noting that although no painting of this subject is known the drawing can be connected to a series of compositional studies showing scenes from the Life of Jacob all of which date from the same period (R.A. d'Hulst, op. cit., nos. A378-382).