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The Rape of Europa (Jordaens)

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1643 painting by Jacob Jordaens

Rape of Europa, 1615 version

The Rape of Europa is a 1643 painting by the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), now in the palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. He also produced a more erotic earlier (1615–1616) version, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

References

Base Joconde: Reference no. 000PE016869, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)
"Die Entführung der Europa". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-03.

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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)