The Feast of the Bean King 1645
by Jacob Jordaens
Title
The Feast of the Bean King 1645
Artist
Jacob Jordaens
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
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.
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