"It is good candles which light the way"

1640s

Jacob Jordaens

Artist, Flemish, 1593 - 1678

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and ink with brown wash and white heightening over black and red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 14.6 x 16.7 cm (5 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.3.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    d'Hulst 1974, Vol. A, no. 191

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Valerius Röver [1686 - 1739], Delft. Johann Goll van Franckenstein [1722 - 1785], Amsterdam, (Lugt 2987); by descent to his son, Johan Goll van Franckenstein [1750 - 1821], Amsterdam; (their sale, J° de Vries, A. Brondgeest, E. M. Engelberts et C. F. Roos, Amsterdam, 1 July 1833). Eugene Rodrigues [born 1853], Paris, (Lugt 897). (Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Mrs. E. John Heidsieck, Tuxedo Park, NY; (her sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 13 February 1943, lot 296); Ingrid [1905 - 1986] and Julius S. [1905 - 2002] Held, New York, (Lugt 4805); purchased by the National Gallery of Art, 1984.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • 17th & 18th Century European Drawings, (American Federation of the Arts) National Gallery of Art, Washington and tour, 1966-1967, no. 8.

1970

  • Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 42.

1979

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 12.

1984

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 1984.

Bibliography

1966

  • AFA 1966, 8.

1974

  • d'Hulst, Roger-A. Jordaens Drawings. 4 vols. London and New York, 1974.

Inscriptions

upper center in brown ink: Het Syn Goede Keersen die voor Lichten; verso, lower left in brown ink: 7/1; lower left in red ink, by J. Goll van Franckenstein [Lugt 2987]:N2732; lower center in graphite, by later hand: Jordaens; lower right in graphite, by later hand: HVO

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: Julius S. Held collection (Lugt 4805); unidentified collector's mark [dry stamp of Rodrigues collection?]

Watermarks

indisinct fragment of a watermark, possibly a serpent

Wikidata ID

Q64579382

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