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.
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Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. After the death of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he became the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time. Unlike those illustrious contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study the Antique and Italian painting and, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he resided in Antwerp his entire life. He also remained largely indifferent to Rubens and van Dyck's intellectual and courtly aspirations. This attitude was expressed in his art through a lack of idealistic treatment which contrasted with that of these contemporaries.
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo was a Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter, the most distinguished of the followers of his father-in-law Velázquez, whose style he imitated more closely than did any other artist. A fine painter himself, Mazo was a master of landscape, as proven by his most celebrated work View of Saragossa.
Jacob Peter Gouwy or Jacob Peter Gowy was a Flemish Baroque painter of history paintings and portraits. He collaborated with Peter Paul Rubens and spent time in England where he was active as a portrait painter. As the creator of a large picture of a horse painted in England he can be considered one of the pioneers of the genre of portraits of horses.
Hans Jordaens the Elder (1555–1630), was a Flemish Baroque painter whose religious works are often confused with that of other painters with the same name.
The Torre de la Parada is a former hunting lodge that was located in present-day Monte de El Pardo in Fuencarral-El Pardo, near the Royal Palace of El Pardo, some way outside Madrid in the Sierra de Guadarrama. It was mostly destroyed by fire when taken in 1714 by Austrian troops in the War of Spanish Succession, though the ruins remain.
The Four Evangelists is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish Baroque artist Jacob Jordaens, which he is believed to have painted some time between 1625 and 1630. The painting measures 133 by 118 centimeters and is in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. It was formerly in the collections of the Dutch painter Pieter Lastman and the French King Louis XVI.
HelenaFourment was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. She sat for a few portraits by Rubens, and also modeled for figures in Rubens' religious and mythological paintings.
The Rape of Ganymede is a painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens produced between 1636 and 1638 painting for the Spanish king Philip IV of Spain's hunting lodge. The painting is based on a story recounted in classical poet Ovid's Metamorphoses. It depicts the moment when the Roman supreme god Jupiter disguised as an eagle catches the young shepherd Ganymede and lifts him into the air. It is in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The dramatic scene gave Rubens ample opportunity to show his skill in depicting a lively scene and the nude.
Peeter Symons or Peeter Simons was a Flemish painter only known for his collaboration with Rubens in 1636 on the commission from the Spanish king Philip IV of Spain to create a series of mythological paintings to decorate the Torre de la Parada, a hunting lodge of the king near Madrid.
The Bagpipe Player is an oil painting by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens depicting the artist himself dressed as a musician blowing a bagpipe. It was bought in London in 2009 for 93,000 Euros by the King Baudouin Foundation with funds from the Léon Courtin-Marcelle Bouché Foundation, which also financed its restoration. It is now on display in the Rubenshuis in Antwerp.
Meleager and Atalanta is a 1618 oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Jordaens returned to the same subject of Meleager and Atalanta in a 1620-1650 painting, now in the Museo del Prado.
Meleager and Atalanta is a 1620–1623 painting by Jacob Jordaens, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
The Old Folks Sing, the Young Folks Chirp is a 1638–1640 oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. He painted several works with this title, a Dutch proverb – this is the earliest of them, whilst another is now in Valenciennes.
The King Drinks or The Bean King is a c.1638 painting by the Flemish Baroque artist Jacob Jordaens, now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
The Apostle Matthew is a c. 1618-1620 painting by the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck depicting Matthew the Apostle. One of its inspirations was probably the series of paintings of the Apostles he had seen in his master Rubens' studio around 1610, produced for the Duke of Lerma. The smooth brushwork is consistent with the painter's other works from first period in Antwerp.
Apollo as Victor over Pan, also known as Apollo's Victory over Marsyas, Tmolus declaring Apollo winner in musical competition with Pan and Apollo and Pan, is a 1637 oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer Jacob Jordaens.
Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah is a painting of 1645–1650, by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens. The painting is a half-length depiction of the biblical prophet Moses, and his African wife.
The Painter's Family is an oil painting in the Flemish Baroque style by painter Jacob Jordaens. It was completed in 1621–22. The painting depicts the artist with his wife, Catharina van Noort, and their first child, Elizabeth. The woman behind them is likely a servant due to her attire and position in the painting. It is currently on display at the Museo del Prado.
Nocturnal appearance or Night vision is a painting made by Jacob Jordaens around 1650. It is in the collection of the Staatliches Museum Schwerin. The title of the painting is also given as A dream. The meaning and subject of the painting depicting a nude woman seen from the back in a dark bedroom with a man asleep on a bed and two onlookers behind a half open door are still a matter of contention among art historians. A second version of the painting was at the Thore (Burger) sale in Paris on 1892, then in the van Hall sale in Antwerp in 1836 and finally in 1905 it was in Paris with art dealer Franz Kleinberger who exhibited it in Antwerp.
