Live Auction 3052The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part II. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500-1900
Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)
Lot 160

Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)

Mars and Venus, after Paolo Veronese

Closed10 December 2014

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Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)
Mars and Venus, after Paolo Veronese
with number '95Tbic'
red chalk, brush and brown ink, watercolour, made up along the right-hand side
11½ x 8 3/8 in. (29.1 x 21.1 cm.)

Johannes Rump (1861-1932), Copenhagen; Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, 25 May 1908, lot 279 (75DM to Hofstede de Groot).
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930) (L.561); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 4 November 1931, part of lot 318 ('13 B... Jordaens (?), Mars, Venus und Amor (nach P. Veronese)').
with Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 4 December 1931 (Inventory book: '1112. t. Jordaens n. Veronese Mars en Venus').

Specialist note

The celebrated Veronese from which this derives is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Jordaens made this copy when it belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689).
Christina stayed in Antwerp in 1654 on her journey to Rome after her abdication. Here she had an inventory drawn up of her works of art, which included 'Une pièce de Mars et Venus, y dedans ung [sic] cheval, dudict Paulo Veronese'.
In 1648 she ordered a series of 35 pictures from Jordaens and she evidently knew the artist well enough for him to have had the chance to copy works from her collection.