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A Youth and Two Girls Singing
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A Youth and Two Girls Singing

17th century

Medium

Black chalk, brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Dimensions

sheet: 4 15/16 x 7 1/16 in. (12.6 x 18 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Anonymous Gift, 2005

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jacob Jordaens

1593–1678Spanish Netherlands

Flemish painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman. He was the first child of Jacob Jordaens (d 5 Aug 1618), a wealthy cloth merchant, and Barbara van Wolschaten (d 11 Feb 1633). In 1607, at the age of 14, he apprenticed himself to the Antwerp painter Adam van Noort, who later became his father-in-law. Comment on works: Landscapes; Mythology; Genre; Religious; Portraits