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.

Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges

Not to be confused with Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed by William Etty.

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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