Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops (Jordaens)

1617 painting by Jacob Jordaens

Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops is a large 1617 oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

The artist was then aged only 24 and still heavily influenced by Peter Paul Rubens, who had produced a version of the same scene in 1616. The work shows Hephaestus's son Erichthonius of Athens being discovered by the daughters of Cecrops I, derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Library of Pseudo-Apollodorus. Jordaens returned to the same subject in 1640 in a work now in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Sources

Jordaens, la gloire d'Anvers, collection Beaux-Arts, Petit Palais, September 2013

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Paintings	Portrait of the Artist with his Family (c. 1615) The Tribute Money. Peter Finding the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish (1616–1634) Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops (1617) Meleager and Atalanta (1618 1620–1623) The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (c. 1618–1620) The Satyr and the Peasant (1620, 1625, c. 1650) Mercury and Argus (c. 1620) The Painter's Family (1621–1622) The Four Evangelists (1625) Apollo as Victor over Pan (1637) As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe (Antwerp, Valenciennes 1638–1640) Self-Portrait (1638–1640) The King Drinks St Petersburg c. 1638 Brussels 1640 The Bagpipe Player (c. 1640) Jupiter Raised by the Nymph Adrasteia (c. 1640) The Rape of Europa (1643) Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (c. 1645–1650) Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges (c. 1646) Nocturnal appearance (c. 1650) Group Portrait (c. 1650) Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1652) The Banquet of Cleopatra (1653)
Painting series	The Signs of the Zodiac (1640)
Related	Adam van Noort (master) Peter Paul Rubens (major influence)

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