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around 1640/45, Artist: Jacob Jordaens
The painting depicts the Flemish folk custom on Epiphany Day: the person able to find a bean hidden in a cake becomes king of the Feast, and then chooses the most beautiful woman as queen. Those others present assume “honorary offices”. The Latin inscription (in English: “None is closer to the fool than the drunkard”) lends the degenerate carryings-on a moralistic undertone. Artistically Jordaens absorbed himself in the art of Caravaggio, Rubens and other Dutch painters, yet developed a characteristic style of his own.
Painting
Flemish
around 1640/45
Jacob Jordaens (1593 Antwerpen - 1678 Antwerpen) - GND
Canvas
242 cm × 300 cm
Framed: 287,5 cm × 346 cm × 18 cm
Auf der Kartusche im Hintergrund der Spruch: NIL. SIMILIVS. INSANO. QVAM. EBRIVS.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Gemäldegalerie, 786
Coll. Leopold Wilhelm
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