The King Drinks (Jordaens, Brussels)

1640 painting by Jacob Jordaens

The King Drinks is a 1640 oil painting on canvas by the Flemish Baroque artist Jacob Jordaens, now in the Oldmasters Museum (part of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium) in Brussels. It shows the Twelfth Night king.

Jordaens's earlier painting of the same subject, executed in 1638, is in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Sources

(in Spanish) Cirlot, Lourdes (ed.): Jordaens, «El rey bebe», en las pp. 108-111 de Museos Reales de Bellas Artes • Bruselas, Col. «Museos del Mundo», Tomo 25, Espasa, 2007. ISBN 978-84-674-3829-1

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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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