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Famille de Rubens (BM 1859,1008.105)

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Famille de Rubens (BM 1859,1008.105)

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Family portrait of Jacob Jordaens with his parents and eight of his brothers and sisters (wrongly titled as a family portrait of Rubens); the family sitting at a round table with a basket of bread, the young painter seated at left with a lute on his lap, his father Jacob Jordaens Senior sitting behind the table, facing front and holding a glass, Jordaens' mother Barbara van Wolschaten at right and holding a small child while another caresses it, two younger women sitting either side of her, a maidservent behind holding a platter of grapes, a boy (one of twins Abraham and Isaac) in foreground stroking a dog beside him, three of the painter's dead siblings floating above as cherubs; after Jacob Jordaens. c.1845-1847
Lithograph on chine collé

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1900
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British Museum
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