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Lot 83

Jacob Jordaens
(Antwerp 1593-1678)
Head study of an elderly woman

5 July 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £37,500 inc. premium

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Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp 1593-1678)

Head study of an elderly woman
oil on paper laid down on canvas
25.4 x 19.1cm (10 x 7 1/2in).

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Provenance
Sale, Christie's, London, 19 April 1991, lot 85

At the time of the 1991 sale, Professor R.A d'Hulst suggested that the present work is a preliminary sketch for the old peasant woman in Jordaens's Satyr and Peasant Family, in the Musée Royeaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels (see: R.A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, Antwerp, 1982, p. 98, ill).

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