Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops (Jordaens)

Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops is a large 1617 oil on canvas painting by Jacob Jordaens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

The artist was then aged only 24 and still heavily influenced by Peter Paul Rubens, who had produced a version of the same scene in 1616. The work shows Hephaestus's son Erichthonius of Athens being discovered by the daughters of Cecrops I, derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Library of Pseudo-Apollodorus. Jordaens returned to the same subject in 1640 in a work now in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Sources

Jordaens, la gloire d'Anvers, collection Beaux-Arts, Petit Palais, September 2013

Paintings

Portrait of the Artist with his Family (c. 1615)
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 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 Signs of the Zodiac (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)
Group Portrait (c. 1650)
Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1652)
The Banquet of Cleopatra (1653)

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