Two women, four men, and a satyr, which is a creature with a man’s body and hairy goat’s legs, gather in a wooded landscape in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale, peachy skin. At the center of the group, to our left of center, a young, cleanshaven man balances on the ball of one foot as he strides toward us. He turns his head to his left so he faces our right in profile, and he looks off in that direction. He wears a ring of laurel leaves in his blond curls and his lips are parted. He holds a jeweled, golden stringed instrument, a lyre, in the crook of his right arm, on our…
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The Judgment of Midas

painter Jan van den Hoecke (Flemish, 1611 - 1651)

c. 1640

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 73.66 × 103.51 cm (29 × 40 3/4 in.) ; framed: 96.52 × 126.37 × 13.34 cm (38 × 49 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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