Antwerp School Seventeenth - Jacob Jordaens Collaborates With Rubens

Virgin and Child Oak panel, parquet floor Beautiful painting, very bright. Jacob Jordaens (1593 - 1678), One of the 3 renowned masters of the Antwerp School of the 17th century, with Pierre Paul Rubens and Antoine Van Dyck. He is inspired by contemporary painters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Van Nuyssen or Van Balen and collaborates several times with Rubens from 1620 to 1640. He reinterprets several of his paintings, including religious. He was the most renowned painter of Antwerp after the death of Rubens in 1640, of which he completed at least 2 works between May 30, 1640 and June 24, 1641. Dimensions: Panel: 97 x 72 Framed: 119 x 95, 5 (Old restorations - uprisings, beginning of crack) Our painting is a resumption of the composition of Rubens preserved in the Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg. (Michael Jaffe, Catalogo Completo Rubens, Rizzoli, Milano, 1989, pp 204-205, 296)