JACOB JORDAENS THE TEMPTATION Size: 26 5/8 x 30 in

A voluptuous, dramatically lit figure composition unfolds across this canvas, rendered in the rich, earthy palette and robust sensuality that defines the Flemish Baroque tradition at its most assured. The interplay of flesh tones against deep shadow, the theatrical gesture and physical presence of the figures, all carry the unmistakable weight of seventeenth-century Antwerp at the height of its artistic ambition.

Jacob Jordaens — a contemporary of Rubens and Van Dyck and ultimately the dominant master of the Antwerp school following Rubens's death — was celebrated for precisely this kind of morally charged, physically immediate narrative painting, drawing from biblical, mythological, and allegorical sources with equal command. His figures tend toward the monumental and the earthly, never idealized, always powerfully human.

A work of this subject and character, in a format suited to a commanding interior wall, will reward a collector with serious interest in the Northern Baroque or in figurative painting of enduring psychological and aesthetic force.

Details

• Dimensions: 26 5/8 x 30 in

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