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The King Drinks (Jordaens, Brussels)
1640 painting by Jacob Jordaens / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.