Jordaens

Abstract

In 1965 the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa acquired from the Northwick Park collection an attractive painting by Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), Young Cavalier Executing a Passade in the Presence of Mercury and Mars. This important enrichment of its possessions, more precisely of its department of Flemish painting, directly induced the museum to organize an exhibition devoted to the great seventeenth-century artist, which at the same time gave new evidence of the steadily increasing interest in his works.