Recent Acquisition: Mercury Standing, by Jacob Jordaens
Submitted by Austėja Mackelaitė on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 8:40pmWhen I left New York for the Salon du Dessin in Paris in late March 2019, I did not expect to fall in love with a Flemish drawing. But somewhere between the opening reception at the grand Palais Brongniart—the historic stock exchange building in Paris—and the flight back to JFK a few days later, this large, colorful study by Antwerp-born Jacob Jordaens had cast its spell on me.