• Was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer.
• He was born in Antwerp.
• He is known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits.
• After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day.
• He never travelled abroad to study Italian painting.
• The displayed painting is a crop from : Portrait of a Young Married Couple, c. 1621-22.
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Jacob Jordaens, The painters family, 1621-1622
Original, El Prado, Madrid. Visited in 2018.
Jacob Jordaens, The painters family, 1621-1622
Circle of Jacob Jordaens, A jester holding a cat
Original, Dorotheum, Vienna. Visited in 2019.
Circle of Jacob Jordaens, A jester holding a cat
Circle of Jacob Jordaens, Study of a bearded man
Original, Dorotheum, Vienna. Visited in 2019.
Circle of Jacob Jordaens, Study of a bearded man
Jacob Jordaens, Study of an Old Man with Clasped Hands, c. 1621
Original, Šternberský palác, Praha. Visited in 2017-19.
Jacob Jordaens, Study of an Old Man with Clasped Hands, c. 1621
Jacob Jordaens, Bacchus Discovering Ariadne, late 1640s
Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Visited in 2018.
Jacob Jordaens, Bacchus Discovering Ariadne, late 1640s
Jacob Jordaens, Portrait of a Young Married Couple, c. 1621-22
Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Visited in 2018.
Jacob Jordaens, Portrait of a Young Married Couple, c. 1621-22
Jacob Jordaens, The Holy Family with an Angel, ca. 1625 - 1629
The Holy Family with an Angel, ca. (1625 - 1629)
Allegory of the Poet, c. (1660)
Original, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Visited in 2018.
Allegory of the Poet, c. (1660) 
The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa,c. (1630 - c. 1640)
The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa,c. (1630 - c. 1640)
Portrait of Catharina Behaghel (1635)
Portrait of Rogier Le Witer (1635)
Original, Offering to Ceres (1620). El Prado. Visited in 2018.
The Holy Family with Shepherds (1616)
The Holy Family with Shepherds (1616)
The Virgin and Child with Saint John and his Parents (about 1620)
Original, The National Gallery - London. Visited in 2018.
Christ appears as a Gardener to the three Marys, ca. (1616)
Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.
The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt, c. (1616)
Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.
The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt, c. (1616)
The Kidnapping of Europe, c. (1615-16)
Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.
The Love of Cupid and Psyche (1640 -50)
The Love of Cupid and Psyche (1640 -50)
Offering to Ceres (1620) 
Original, El Prado-Madrid. Visited in 2018.
Allegory of Fertility, ca. (1617)
Original, The Pinakotheken - Munich. Visited in 2019.
Jacob Jordaens, The Satyr and the Peasant, ca. 1620-21
Original, The Pinakotheken - Munich. Visited in 2019.
Jacob Jordaens, The Satyr and the Peasant, ca. 1620-21
Old reveler, c. (1640-1643)
Original, The Pinakotheken - Munich. Visited in 2019.
An Allegory of Fruitfulness (1620 - 1629)
Original, The Wallace Collection - London. Visited in 2018.
An Allegory of Fruitfulness (1620 - 1629)
Portrait of Elizabeth Jordaens, Daughter of the Artist, ca. (1640)
Original, MAG - Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester. Visited in 2020.
Original, Sotheby`s, New York. Visited in 2020.
Jacob Jordaens - The Sleeping Antiope Approached by Jupiter (1660)
Jacob Jordaens, The Daughters of Cecrops find little Erichthonios, about 1640
Original,
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-2020.
Jacob Jordaens, The Daughters of Cecrops find little Erichthonios, about 1640
Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-2020.
Jacob Jordaens, Jesus driving the merchants out of the Temple, 1645-1650
Jacob Jordaens, Jesus driving the merchants out of the Temple, 1645-1650
Jacob Jordaens, The Rest of Diane Chasseresse, 1640 - 1650
Jacob Jordaens, The Last Judgment, 1653
Jacob Jordaens, Obese man, formerly known as Portrait of Admiral Michel-Adrien Ruyter, around 1650
