Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
JACOB JORDAENS (ANTWERP 1593-1678)
Lot 50

JACOB JORDAENS (ANTWERP 1593-1678)

Head study of a crying girl, with a separate study of her mouth

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 7,560

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JACOB JORDAENS (ANTWERP 1593-1678)
Head study of a crying girl, with a separate study of her mouth
black chalk, heightened with white
14 x 11.5 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

Lord Barrymore (possibly his mark, not in Lugt); Sotheby’s, London, 21 June 1933, part of lot 9 (as Peter Paul Rubens).
Hendrikus Egbertus ten Cate (1895-1955), Almelo; Sotheby’s, London, 25 February 1959, lot 23 (as Rubens).
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London.
John K. Rowlands (1931-2016), London.

Specialist note

This unusally vivid study from life, first attributed to Jordaens by James Byam Shaw, has been dated to the 1630s by Roger-A. d’Hulst (op. cit.).