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The Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra
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The Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra

17th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink, watercolor, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk

Dimensions

16 7/16 x 14 1/8 in. (41.7 x 35.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1963

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jacob Jordaens

1593–1678Spanish Netherlands

Flemish painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman. He was the first child of Jacob Jordaens (d 5 Aug 1618), a wealthy cloth merchant, and Barbara van Wolschaten (d 11 Feb 1633). In 1607, at the age of 14, he apprenticed himself to the Antwerp painter Adam van Noort, who later became his father-in-law. Comment on works: Landscapes; Mythology; Genre; Religious; Portraits