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Christ Healing the Paralytic
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Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash

Dimensions

sheet: 5 1/4 x 7 15/16 in. (13.3 x 20.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2011

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