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Lot Essay
This picture is the same work as that listed by Rooses, loc. cit., as belonging to M. Leblon of Antwerp, and dated by him to circa 1638. He did not realise that this was the same picture as that noted in his appendix, p. 264, as having been in the Huybrechts sale, leading subsequent authors to make the same error.
The figure of the singing boy is known from a black and red study from life listed by d'Hulst in the first supplement to his catalogue raisonné of Jordaens' drawings, loc. cit., and which he regards as preparatory to a lost original, listing the present work as a studio version. The figures of the three musicians are reproduced in an autograph work formerly in the collection of Lord Yarborough, and that of the piper alone recurs in a painting recorded by d'Hulst as being in a private collection, Genk, Belgium (R.A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, London, 1982, pp. 181 and 184, illustrated p. 185), and which he notes is a self-portrait, datable to circa 1640-45.
The figure of the singing boy is known from a black and red study from life listed by d'Hulst in the first supplement to his catalogue raisonné of Jordaens' drawings, loc. cit., and which he regards as preparatory to a lost original, listing the present work as a studio version. The figures of the three musicians are reproduced in an autograph work formerly in the collection of Lord Yarborough, and that of the piper alone recurs in a painting recorded by d'Hulst as being in a private collection, Genk, Belgium (R.A. d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, London, 1982, pp. 181 and 184, illustrated p. 185), and which he notes is a self-portrait, datable to circa 1640-45.