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.
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Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges
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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