Rudolf Jordan (1810-1885) - Moeder met kind

This is a beautiful painting by the German artist Rudolf Jordan (1810-1887).
This beautiful work is in a very beautiful condition and is signed with a monogram in the lower left and dated '58.
A beautiful work
Without a list, the measurements are 35cm x 41cm.
Rudolf Jordan
(1810 Berlin – 1887 Düsseldorf)
Portrait of the artist Rudolf Jordan, after Andreas Achenbach. Lithograph. 24.4 x 19.9 cm. 1833.


Rudolf Jordan was initially trained as a groom before turning to painting at the age of nineteen on the advice of Wilhelm Wach. In 1833, he began studying at the Düsseldorf Academy, where he remained until 1840. After working for several years with Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn, he established himself as an independent artist in 1848 in Düsseldorf and quickly became one of the most respected figures of the Düsseldorf school. His first genre painting, The Fisherman’s Family (1832), and the Marriage Proposal on Heligoland, created in 1834 during his student years in Düsseldorf, were enthusiastically received at the Berlin Academy Exhibition. These works set new standards for a type of genre painting in which Jordan achieved notable success: ethnographic, anecdotal depictions of fishermen’s lives, observed during several trips to the coasts of Holland, Belgium, and northern Germany. The date on this lithograph indicates it was made in January 1833, just before Jordan began his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy. The monogram at the top right suggests that the portrait is derived from a painting by Andreas Achenbach. Achenbach attended the Düsseldorf Academy ten years earlier than Jordan and traveled through the Netherlands with his father in 1832/33. The margin sketches, which include three grotesque heads and a horse, depict fishermen and their boats along the coast, revealing both artists’ interest in maritime painting. Interestingly, this is the third portrait of young Rudolf Jordan smoking a pipe. Apparently, the impressively bearded pipe was a characteristic attribute of the young art student, who gazes at the viewer with a confident, mischievous smirk, while smoke escapes from his lips.