Foto de stock - Illustration picture shows a crack in the wood of the earliest known version of Jacques Jordaens' 'Holy Family' (De Heilige Familie - La Sainte Famille) at the KIK-IRPA, in Brussels, Tuesday 08 December 2020. The artwork of the utmost importance by Antwerp Baroque Master Jacques Jordaens (1593-1678) has been discovered at the Saint-Gilles - Sint-Gillis City Hall in Brussels by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) during an inventory commissioned by urban.brussels in 2019. The artwork, which had been considered a mere copy, had remained undisturbed in the Town Planning and Development Counselor's office for about 60 years. The precious wood panel has now been authenticated as the oldest known version of a composition of the 'Holy Family', which Jordaens reiterated in three other panels conserved at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, Saint-Petersburg's Hermitage and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich...BELGA PHOTO VIRGINIE LEFOUR.