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Skillfully Organized Disorder by Jacob Jordaens

Published on , by Claire Papon
Auction on 30 October 2020 - 13:30 (CET) - Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Dating from around 1660, this painting features a subject from the Acts of the Apostles, painted several times by Jacob Jordaens, with an iconography very popular at the time.
Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), St Paul and St Barnabas at Lystra, oil on canvas, 115... Skillfully Organized Disorder by Jacob Jordaens

Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), St Paul and St Barnabas at Lystra, oil on canvas, 115 x 136 cm.
Estimate: €50,000/70,000

When they left Antioch to evangelize Anatolia, Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas met only Jewish audiences. Arriving in Lystra a year later, they came upon some pagan inhabitants, who believed Barnabas to be Zeus and Paul to be Hermes after the miraculous healing of a crippled man. To honor them, the crowd…
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