Job

ca. 1620

Jacob Jordaens Flemish, 1593-1678

Not On View

Image Only Image + Details All Images High Resolution TIFF Metadata

About the Artwork

Please note: This section is empty
Markings

Please note: This section is empty

This section contains information about signatures, inscriptions and/or markings an object may have.
Provenance

Please note: This section is empty

Provenance is a record of an object's ownership. We are continually researching and updating this information to show a more accurate record and to ensure that this object was ethically and legally obtained.

For more information on provenance and its important function in the museum, please visit:
Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Published References

Please note: This section is empty

We regularly update our object record as new research and findings emerge, and we welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Catalogue Raisonné

Please note: This section is empty

A catalogue raisonné is an annotated listing of artworks created by an artist across different media.
Credit Line for Reproduction

Please note: This section is empty

The credit line includes information about the object, such as the artist, title, date, and medium. Also listed is its ownership, the manner in which it was acquired, and its accession number. This information must be cited alongside the object whenever it is shown or reproduced.

About the Artwork

Title Job

Artwork Date ca. 1620

Artist Jacob Jordaens

Life Dates 1593-1678

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Flemish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 26 3/8 × 20 1/2 inches (67 × 52.1 cm) Framed: 42 1/8 × 36 3/16 × 3 1/4 inches (107 × 91.9 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Frederic A. Gimbel and Dr. Armand Hammer

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 43.418

Markings

Inscriptions ------

Provenance

possibly, collection of Counts Schönborn (Pommersfelden, Bamberg, Germany). May 30-31, 1892, Haro père et fils auction at (Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, France), lot 26. auction of Paul Mersch collection (Paris, France)

collection of Marczell von Nemes (Budapest, Hungary)

collection of E. Warneck (Paris, France)

May 10-11, 1905, auction of the succession of Mme. E. Warneck (Drouot-Féral, Paris, France), lot 38

May 10-11, 1905, purchased by Newumans. December 14, 1927, auction of Baron Léon de Pitteurs Hugaerts d'Orange & others (Fiévèz, Brussels, Belgium), lot 69. by 1932, collection of Alberto J. Pani (Mexico)

December 17, 1942, auction of A. J. Pani at (Kende Galleries, New York, New York, USA), lot 33

December 17, 1942, purchased by Gimbel Brothers (Kende Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

Frederic A. Gimbel and Dr. Armand Hammer (New York, New York, USA)

1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

For more information on provenance and its important function in the museum, please visit:

Provenance page

Exhibition History

Please note: This section is empty

The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.

We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.

Suggest Feedback

Published References

Album der Tentoonstelling Jacob Jordaens. Antwerp, 1905, pl. 1 (2).

Buschmann, P. Jacob Jordaens. Eene studie naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling zijner werken ingericht te Antwerpen in MCMV. Brussels, 1905, p. 80.

Buschmann, P. "De Jordaens-tentoonstelling te Antwerpen," Onze Kunst. pp. 149-161, esp. p. 158, (repr.) opposite p. 160.

P.P. RUBENS[...]. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Antwerp, 1905, no. 2.

Rooses, M. Jordaen's Leven en Werken. Amsterdam and Antwerp, 1906, pp. 38, 265.

Rooses, M. Jacob Jordaens. New York, 1908, (repr.) p. 37.

Exposition d'art Ancien/l'art Belge Au XVII Siècle. Exh. cat., Musées Royaux de Cinquantenaire. Brussels, 1910, no. 229.

Held, J.S. Malerier og Tegninger af Jacob Jordaens. Copenhagen, 1939, vol. 26, p. 11, (fig. 12).

Pani, A. J. La Segunda Coleccion Pani de Pinturas, Catalogo Descriptivo y Comentado. Mexico, 1940, pp. 63-64, no. 21, (repr.).

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 71, no. 594.

Valentiner, W.R. "The Penitent Saint Peter," Bulletin of the DIA 24, no. 2 (1944): pp. 16-18, (repr.).

Puyvelde, L. van. Jordaens. Paris-Brussels, 1953, pp. 84, 232.

d'Hulst, R.-A. De Tekeningen van Jacob Jordaens. Brussels, 1956, p. 86, no. 1.

Varshavskaia, M. Van Dyck Paintings in the Hermitage. 1963, pp. 94, 151.

Masters of the Loaded Brush/Oil Sketches from Rubens to Tiepolo. Exh. cat., M. Knoedler and Company [planned under the auspices of Columbia University]. New York, 1967, pp. 70-71, no. 51 [as Head of Abraham Grapheus].

Wittkower, R. "Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Oil Sketches on Exhibition in New York," The Connoisseur, vol. CLXIV (1967): pp.[?], esp. p. 245, (fig. 7).

Held, J.S. "Jordaens at Ottawa," Burlington Magazine, vol. 111 (1969): p. 272, (fig. 1).

Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century: The Collections of the DIA. Detroit, 1982, pp. 64-66, (repr.).

d'Hulst, R.A. Jacob Jordaens. London, 1982, p. 102, 110, (fig. 68) [as Study of the head of Abraham Grapheus].

Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Exh. cat., Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Antwerp, 1993, p.100, cat. 22, (repr.) [cat. entry by R. A. D'Hulst].

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle, vol. II, Die Niederländischen Gemälde 1500-1800, Hamburg, 2001, p. 148 [cited under inv. 82].

Kindly share your feedback or any additional information, as this record is still a work in progress and may need further refinement.

Suggest Feedback