Jabach came from a German banking family in Cologne. In 1635 he established himself in Paris as a director of East India company. He married into a French family and had a home built in Paris in 1950. His art collection numbered some 5000 prints and 100 paintings, as well as sculpture, tapestries, silver and objects d'art.
Bibliography
1931
Brieger, Lothar. Die grossen Kunstsammler. Berlin, 1931:171-176
1951
Grossman, F. "Holbein, Flemish Paintings and Everhard Jabach." The Burlington Magazine XCIII, no. 574 (January 1951): 16-25.