Meleager and Atalanta (Jordaens, 1618)

Meleager and Atalanta
Meleager and Atalanta
Artist	Jacob Jordaens
Year	c. 1618
Dimensions	152 cm (60 in) × 120 cm (47 in)
Location	Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Collection	Flemish Art Collection
Accession No.	844
Identifiers	RKDimages ID: 8130

Meleager and Atalanta is a 1618 oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Jordaens returned to the same subject of Meleager and Atalanta in a 1620-1650 painting, now in the Museo del Prado.^[1]

References

Jacob Jordaens
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) (1618 1620–1623) The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (c. 1618–1620) The Return of the Holy Family from the Flight into Egypt (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)