The King Drinks (Jordaens, Brussels)

The King Drinks
Artist	Jacob Jordaens
Year	1640
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Flemish Baroque
Location	Oldmasters Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Owner	Oldmasters Museum

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