The King Drinks (Jordaens, Brussels)

The King Drinks
Artist	Jacob Jordaens
Year	1640
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Flemish Baroque
Dimensions	156 cm× 210 cm(61 in× 83 in)
Location	Oldmasters Museum, Brussels

The King Drinks is an oil on canvas painting on canvas by the Flemish Baroque artist Jacob Jordaens, from 1640. It is held in the Oldmasters Museum, part of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, in Brussels. It shows the celebration of the Twelfth Night, with his king.

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