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Fig. 10. Jordaens, Munich Alte Pinakotek. Fig. 11. Jordaens, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, Inv.2615.

abandoned preliminary sketch in the manner of Jordaens’s series of early acade mies. These are divided between

the Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and the Düsseldorf Kunstmuseum. There is a distinctive chip on the
Fig. 8. Jordaens, Satyr. Formerly with Fig. 9. Jordaens, The Satyr and the Peasant Family, formerly with Otto Naumann, band below the rim of the por ridge bowl beside the satyr, which is found in neither the Cassel painting, nor the
Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam. New York.
present work. Moreover, the curved handle of the ladle, held by the boy whose head is visible by the satyr’s
bicep, appears unsupported in the drawing. The magnificently drawn head of the satyr in the drawing is turned
Jordaens certainly experimented with such trials in the course of illustrating this, his favorite theme. For example,
on the verso of a sheet in the Louvre (INV 20028), the recto showing The Holy Family with St John, his Parents and in three-quarter profile. The lower profile of the satyr’s right forearm has been shifted upward to clear the ladle.
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Angels is a more finished study for the The Satyr and the Peasant Family (Fig. 6), which is related to two almost There are also significant differences in the foliage (absent altogether from the satyr’s lap in the present painting)
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identical autograph paintings in Goteborg and Brussels (Fig. 7). However in the case of the present painting and on the face and body of the satyr, for instance in the furrowed brow and wrinkled folds of the torso. The
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and in the Kassel version, Jordaens took pains to study as closely as he could the pose projected for the single drawing should, therefore, not be dismissed as a copy after the present painting.
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figure of the satyr, in the same manner as in another study, Male nude seated, which relates to the principal
figure in The Mocking of Christ (Williamstown, Mass., the Williams College Museum of Art). In a large study a
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for The Satyr and the Peasant Family (Fig. 8), to the right of a fully realised study of the satyr’s pose there is an

9. R.-A. D’Hulst, Jordaens’s Drawings, Brussels, 1974, no. A 38. 12. Black chalk, heightened with white, 405 x 260 mm, sold at Sotheby’s Mak van Waay on 25 April 1983, lot 83, as ‘Studio of
10. D’Hulst, op. cit., no. A 54, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Inv. 6179. Jordaens’ to Houthakker.
11. D’Hulst, op. cit., no. A 72. 13. e.g. D’Hulst, op. cit., no. A 12.

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