# Self-Portrait with the Family of his Father-in-Law Adam van Noort [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JORDAENS, Jacob]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 131 x 159 cm ## Commentary This is one of the earliest portraits by Jordaens. In it the figures seem to be crowded together in the foreground, so that their attitudes and outlines still look somewhat Mannerist. They fit into the sixteenth-century tradition of the family portrait; here, too, family harmony is expressed by emblematic details, such as fruit, flowers and musical instruments, and by the organic relationship of the different personages. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Fertility]() - [Allegory of Fertility]() - [Allegory of Fertility]() - [An Apostle]() - [Apostles Paul and Barnabas in Lystra]() - [As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes \(detail\)]() - [As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Bearded Man Stepping Down]() - [Christ Driving the Merchants from the Temple]() - [Cleopatra's Feast]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()