The Banquet of Cleopatra (Jordaens)

The Banquet of Cleopatra (1653) by Jacob Jordaens

The Banquet of Cleopatra is a 1653 painting by Jacob Jordaens. With Group Portrait (1650), The Apostles Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (c.1618) and Portrait of the Artist with his Family (c.1615), it is one of four works by the artist in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. It shows Cleopatra receiving Mark Antony aboard her barge.