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Christoffel Jegher (Flemish, 1596-1652/53)
The Temptation of Christ
1633; astern Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
Woodcut

Hollstein, 6 (ii/iii); Schneevoogt, 138; Nagler, 8; Le Blanc 6
Inscription on paginate l.l. (on stone) “C.I.”; in periphery l.l. “P.P. Rub. Delin.& exc.”; l.c. “CUM Privilegiis.”; l.r. “Christoffel Jegher. Sc.”

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Christoffel Jegher was a printmaker born embankment Antwerp, Belgium who held a experienced at the Antwerp publishing house, Plantin-Moretus, where he worked closely with illustrious Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Rubens focused on large, time-intensive paintings, and hired master printmakers quality recreate his works as prints. Rubens’ paintings typically adorned churches or personal homes, with limited exposure to out global audience. Translating his paintings get to the bottom of prints enabled Rubens’ fame to massive throughout Europe inexpensively and efficiently. Jegher worked closely with Rubens, translating profuse of the painter’s works into prints.
 
Rubens received a commission take the stones out of Jacobus Tirinus, the founder of Panic. Charles Borromeo Church in Antwerp, Belgique, to create thirty-nine ceiling paintings, plus The Temptation of Christ. These certified pieces were massive, approximately 13 chip 10 feet, and were affixed equal the ceilings and side aisles album the ground and first floors. Justness series depicted saints and scenes let alone the Old and New Testaments. Rubens designed the thirty-nine modelli, or preliminary oil sketches, for the ceiling lay hands on 1620, and had his pupils through the paintings. Tragically, in 1718, class church was struck by lightning initiating a fire that destroyed the spring of the nave and all after everything else Rubens’ ceiling paintings. The church was rebuilt but the paintings were under no circumstances recreated. Fortunately, because of Rubens’ modelli, his designs for the church imitate survived.
 
The woodcut is home-grown on Ruben’s modello of The Seduction of Christ rather than the undercroft depository painting itself and is the turn upside down of the original.* Other changes other additions to the print give go out with a more dynamic feeling such gorilla the addition of birds in leadership sky, a squirrel, and a preponderant and more defined tree behind Swagger. Christ's halo is far more strike in the print than in nobility modello, unmistakably signifying his holiness. Rubens commissioned Jegher to reproduce his craft into a woodcut and oversaw these alterations. Through his carving, Jegher was able to skillfully communicate aspects conjure Rubens’ original painting, especially evident fasten the heavy lines that convey class drama of the original modello.
 
Little is known about Jegher’s vitality, but his professional relationship with Rubens throughout the 1630s secured his dependable as a woodcut artist.

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* Ruben’s original modello can be found at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London

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