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JACOB JORDAENS (ANTWERP 1593-1678)
The Rape of Europa - a sketch
oil on panel
21 7/8 x 36 1/4 in. (55.5 x 92.1 cm.)
Provenance
Zoltan de Boér (1924-1989), Malmö, by 1968.
Rune Manacke, Malmö.
Anonymous sale [Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1980, lot 61.
Private collection, Germany.
with Galerie Eckard Lingenauber, Düsseldorf, in 1990.
Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 15 March 1990, lot 243, where acquired.
Literature
R.-A. d'Hulst, 'Drie vroege schilderijen van Jacob Jordaens', Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis en de Oudheidkunde, XX, 1967, pp. 84-5, fig. 5.
H. K. Gerson, 'Jordaens at Ottawa', Art News, LXVII, no. 8, December 1968, pp. 38-9, note 1.
M. Jaffé, 'Reflections on the Jordaens exhibition', Bulletin of the National Gallery of Canada, no. 13, 1969, p. 9, no. 13.
R.-A. d'Hulst, 'Jordaens', The Art Bulletin, LI, no. 4, December 1969, p. 379.
J. Kelch, Berliner Museen, Forschungen, 1981, pp. 48-9, 135 and 137, fig. XIII.
R.-A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens London, 1982, pp. 53-5, 106 and 220, pl. 20.
R.-A. d'Hulst et al., Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678): Paintings and Tapestries, exhibition catalogue, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1993, I, p. 212, under no. A67, fig. A67b.
R. Klessmann, Die flämischen Gemälde des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 2003, p. 63, under no. 114.
W. Liedtke et al., Masterworks from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, pp. 69 and 72, under no. 4.
Exhibited
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, 18 May-4 August 1968, no. F.16.
Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Die Verführung der Europa, 2 August-30 October 1988, no. 149.
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