As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries.
Jordaens is known to have studied Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, and Bassano, either through prints, copies or originals. His work, however, betrays local traditions, especially the genre traditions of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in honestly depicting Flemish life with authenticity and showing common people in the act of celebratory expressions of life.
His commissions frequently came from wealthy local Flemish patrons and clergy, although later in his career he worked for courts and governments across Europe. Besides a large output of monumental oil paintings he was a prolific tapestry designer, a career that reflects his early training as a "watercolor" painter.
One of his masterpiece is available in print on our website, -Summer-, also here are just a few examples of his work: -The Satyr and the Peasant-, -As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe-, -Prometheus-.
**source: wikipedia.org
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