Jan Muller Antiques

Jan Muller is delighted to participate in BRAFA 2026, where he will present a selection of Old Master paintings. Alongside works by artists such as Sebastiaen Vrancx, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and David Teniers II, he will showcase an exceptional painting by Jacob Jordaens: a preparatory modello for The Triumph of the Eucharist.

Jacob Jordaens was one of the most prominent painters of the Flemish Baroque. Though often overshadowed by Rubens and Van Dyck during their lifetimes, Jordaens emerged as the leading figure in Antwerp following their deaths in the early 1640s. A pupil of Adam van Noort (also Rubens' teacher), Jordaens remained in Antwerp his entire life, never making the customary journey to Italy. Instead, he absorbed and transformed the lessons of his predecessors into a rich, personal style...

This “Triumph of the Eucharist” is a richly allegorical composition celebrating the Catholic belief in the Real Presence, the transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ during the consecration of the Mass. Likely conceived as a preparatory modello for the large-scale altarpiece now in the National Gallery of Ireland, this version shows several pentimenti and compositional adjustments that attest to the artist’s hand and evolving design...