Everhard Jabach
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Everhard or Eberhard Jabach (10 July 1618 – 9 March 1695) was a French businessman, art collector, and director of the French East India Company. He was born in Cologne in the Holy Roman Empire but later naturalised as a French subject.
Life
His father had expanded the family fortune and founded a bank in Antwerp, then in the Spanish Netherlands. Everhard himself settled in France in 1638 and was naturalised as a French subject in 1647. In 1648, he married Anna Maria de Groote in Cologne; she was the daughter of one of the city's senators, and he had four children with her. Francis Haskell called him "an opulent banker", associated with a trading company based in Amsterdam and one of the directors of the French East India Company, managing the 'factory' at Corbeil. In 1671, his fortune was valued at 2 million livres. Now lost, his town house, or 'hôtel particulier, was on rue Neuve-Saint-Merri; he put on plays there, whose audiences included Voltaire, before it became the base of the "Caisse Jabach" Comptoir commercial.
Jabach collections
Jabach is most notable as a famous collector of drawings, paintings, sculptures, objets d'art, bronzes, and prints by
In 1741,
His portrait was painted by several notable artists of the time, including
He also acted as an agent for Cardinal Mazarin in the dispersal in London of the collection of Charles I, in competition with the French ambassador acting for the king. Most of these paintings also reached the French royal collection after the cardinal's death. Jabach used agents in London, especially a French merchant called Oudancour. Jabach's purchases totaled over twenty paintings of extremely high quality, with the representatives of the King of Spain and the Emperor being the main other competing buyers.[4]
Selected works from his collection
- National Gallery, London)
- Caravaggio, The Death of the Virgin (now Louvre)
- Correggio, Allegory of Vice and Allegory of Virtue, from Isabella d'Este's studiolo in Mantua (both now Louvre)
- Städel Museum)
- van Eyck, Dresden Triptych (now Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister)
- St. John the Baptist(now Louvre)
- Gentileschi, Rest on the Flight into Egypt (now Louvre)
- Titian, The Entombment (now Louvre)
- Titian, Man with a Glove (now Louvre)
- Titian, Conjugal Allegory (now Louvre)
- Titian or Giorgione, Pastoral Concert (now Louvre)
Bibliography
- ISBN 9780330427098
- (in French) Antoine Schnapper, Curieux du Grand Siècle, Flammarion, 1994
- C. Monbeig-Goguel, « Taste and Trade: The Retouched Drawings in the Everhard Jabach Collection at the Louvre », The Burlington Magazine, 1988
- (in French) Collections de Louis XIV, Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, 7 octobre 1977 – 9 janvier 1978, p. 10-20 du catalogue qui reproduit un portrait de Jabach dessiné par Le Brun, et son paraphe
- (in French) L'honneur de la curiosité – de Dürer à Poussin, dessins de la seconde collection Jabach, musée du Louvre, février – avril 2002, catalogue
- (in French) Philippe Dagen, « De Dürer à Poussin, de merveilleux dessins », Le Monde, 2 février 2002, article non signé ; « Curieux et passionné », Le Monde, 22 février 2002
- http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/626692
References
- ^ Louvre page
- ^ [https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/48277 Hermitage page; there is a 2nd version: oil on canvas, 106 x 84 cm, private collection ((in French) source : Blaise Ducos et Olivia Sabatier Djöholm, Everhard Jabach – Un Allemand à la cour de Louis XIV in Grand Galerie – Le Journal du Louvre, juin/juillet/août 2013, n° 24, pp. 66–67).
- ^ Vogel, Carol (16 May 2014). "British Cede Le Brun Portrait to the Met". The New York Times.
- ^ Brotton, 298-299
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