The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (Jordaens)

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes is a circa 1618–1620 oil painting by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens depicting a New Testament episode.

[2] The painting was long assumed to be by Peter Paul Rubens, who had treated similar subjects involving the fisherman Simon Peter.

Only in 1977 did a consensus emerge among art historians that the painting is a work from the end of the early period of the long-lived Jacob Jordaens's career.

It is too large for an oil sketch, and too rough for an official commission.

It may be a modello for a lost, larger and more polished painting, or for a tapestry.