# The Ferry Boat to Antwerp [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JORDAENS, Jacob]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 280 x 467 cm ## Commentary The Ferry Boat to Antwerp c. 1623 Oil on canvas, 280 x 467 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen The right side of the huge painting contains the biblical scene of the Tribute Money: apostle Peter on the lake at Capernaum miraculously finds a coin in the mouth of the first fish to bite. The coin allows Jesus and his disciples to pay compulsory tribute money to the temple in Jerusalem. The ferryboat, heavily loaded with animals and passengers of all ages and nationalities, takes up the greater part of the canvas. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Fertility]() - [Allegory of Fertility]() - [Allegory of Fertility]() - [An Apostle]() - [Apostles Paul and Barnabas in Lystra]() - [As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes \(detail\)]() - [As the Old Sang the Young Play Pipes]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Bearded Man Stepping Down]() - [Christ Driving the Merchants from the Temple]() - [Cleopatra's Feast]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()