La pesca miracolosa

For most of its life in the museum this hung as a Rubens. The German art historian Wilhelm von Bode bought it in London in 1911 under that name, for Strasbourg. Only in 1977 did scholars settle on Jacob Jordaens instead, painted around 1619 when he was young and working in close contact with Rubens's workshop in Antwerp. You can see why the two were confused: the crowded boat, the muscular fishermen straining at the net, the heavy Flemish light. It shows the New Testament scene of Peter and the apostles hauling in a catch so large the nets nearly break, after a whole night of catching nothing.