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.

Cleopatra is represented in the middle in the guise of a beautiful Flemish, as we liked them at the time, that is to say round and chubby. She wears a sumptuous adornment of pearls. It is a scene of seduction towards Marc-Antoine. This one in general Roman is represented with his helmet, visibly subjugated, the hilt of his sword symbolizing his virile attribute. He is seduced because Cleopatra tricks him by dropping a pearl in her cup (which is why the jester behind her is laughing, to show that she is tricking the Roman), which means that the sum of money he needs to wage his war against the Parthians, is modified and that by melting the pearl in vinegar, it becomes an invaluable beverage.

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[fr] Le Banquet de Cléopâtre

[ru] Пир Клеопатры (картина Йорданса)