Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges

Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges is a small c.1646 painting of the story of Candaules by Jacob Jordaens, now in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, to which it was donated in 1872 by count Axel Bielke.

The work was bought in Antwerp by the collector Martinus van Langenhoven in 1646.

Sources

(in French) Max Rooses, Jordaens: sa vie et ses oeuvres, Amsterdam, 1906, pp. 144-146.

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Paintings	Portrait of the Artist with his Family (c. 1615) The Tribute Money. Peter Finding the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish (1616–1634) Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops (1617) Meleager and Atalanta (1618 1620–1623) The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (c. 1618–1620) The Satyr and the Peasant (1620, 1625, c. 1650) Mercury and Argus (c. 1620) The Painter's Family (1621–1622) The Four Evangelists (1625) Apollo as Victor over Pan (1637) As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe (Antwerp, Valenciennes 1638–1640) Self-Portrait (1638–1640) The King Drinks St Petersburg c. 1638 Brussels 1640 The Bagpipe Player (c. 1640) Jupiter Raised by the Nymph Adrasteia (c. 1640) The Rape of Europa (1643) Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (c. 1645–1650) Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges (c. 1646) Nocturnal appearance (c. 1650) Group Portrait (c. 1650) Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1652) The Banquet of Cleopatra (1653)
Painting series	The Signs of the Zodiac (1640)
Related	Adam van Noort (master) Peter Paul Rubens (major influence)