‘Every single work is a masterpiece’: the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest Flemish drawings
A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life
Skye Sherwin
Thursday 28 May 2024
The 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.
