The King Drinks (Jordaens, Brussels)

The King Drinks is a 1640 oil painting on canvas by the Flemish Baroque artist Jacob Jordaens, now in 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[edit]

  • (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