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.
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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