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Res. Katalogtext: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 109:

Technical notes: The support consists of a single
piece of coarsely woven plain weave fabric. Fragments of
the tacking edges have been preserved. Broad cusping
occurs along the lower edge and to a smaller extent along
the top edge as well. The painting has probably retained
its original height. The painting has been lined.
The canvas was prepared with thick, evenly applied
ground that completely covers the structure of the support.
The ground seems to have been dark reddishbrown.
The paint layer consists of single opaque layer that
completely covers the underlying preparation. Simple
painting technique. The painting underwent conservation
treatment in 1987.

Provenance: Purchase 1986 from Auktionsverket
Stockholm, no. 597.

Exhibited: Börstorp, 1987.

This theme was treated by Jordaens around 1650.1
The original of this painting is in the Staatliches
Museum Schwerin, there ascribed to Jordaens.2
The motif, which it has not been possible to identify,
is probably taken from some classical literary
source. It depicts an interior at night with a man moving
uneasily in his bed while he stretches out his arms
towards a naked young woman who seems to appear as
a dream figure. Two figures with a candle are standing
in the open doorway, while a stool with various bedroom
utensils is toppled by the draught. The nude
woman standing with her back towards the viewer
recalls a similar motif by Jordaens – King Candaules of
Lydia Showing his Wife to Gyges (no. 105). A fragmentary
classical narrative that has also been proposed as
the subject of this work is “The Corinthian Bride” in
which a young woman returns to her home in ghostly
form after her death.3

The original painting was referred to by a contemporary
painter, Gerard de Lairesse, in 1666, a few
years after Jordaens’ death. He was not certain what
the motif was either.4
GCB

1 J. Held, Jordaens “Night Vision – A Rejoinder”, Journal of the Warburg
and Courtauld Institutes 25, 1962, pp. 131–134.
2 Jacob Jordaens, Nächtliche Erscheinung, oil on canvas, 133 x 144, inv. no.
G 161. See Jan Brueghels Antwerpen. Die flämische Gemälde in Schwerin,
Staatliches Museum Schwerin 2003, no. 31.
3 The textual basis of this interpretation has been proposed by E. Bielefeld,
“Jordaens’ Night Vision”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
23, 1960, pp. 177–178.
4 See above Held 1962.[End]

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