The Garden of Eden

Details

Follower of Jan Brueghel II
The Garden of Eden
oil on copper
55.4 x 71.9 cm.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve and will be sold to the highest bidder. Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

The present composition can be compared with Jan Brueghel II's Paradise landscape with Fall of Man offered with Lempertz, Cologne, 29 October 1941, lot 11 (see K. Ertz, Jan Breughel the Younger (1601-1678): The Paintings with Oeuvre Catalogue, 1984, I, p. 292, no. 115).

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