he women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one animated face to another as the conversation darts around the group. They seem completely unaware, from a window above the courtyard where they’re chatting, the artist Jacques Jordaens is sketching them in quick red chalk and brown ink.
The exhibition brings you up close to the creative processes of those working at the height of baroque art in the Spanish Netherlands during the Counter-Reformation. There is a big emphasis on Antwerp’s favourite son, Rubens. His drawings here include early works reinterpreting the Danse Macabre from a print series by Holbein.
The more low-key works are no less memorable, such as Cornelis de Vos’s charming head of a chubby-cheeked, stoic-looking little girl, or the animals who may have filled the pages of bestiaries, including a strikingly attentive lifesize drawing of a dead worm. “I love the worm,” enthuses Van Camp. “Every single work is a masterpiece.”Main image: Joris Hoefnagel – Allegory for Abraham Ortelius
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