Orpheus Charming the Animals

Details

Circle of Jan Breughel I (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp)
Orpheus Charming the Animals
oil on panel
14 ½ x 18 7/8 in. (36.8 x 48 cm.)

Provenance

with Leger Galleries, London, 1969, as Jan Breughel I and Roelandt Savery, where acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Grosvenor House, June 1969, as Jan Breughel I and Roelandt Savery.

Lot Essay

The present work derives from a painting of about 1605 that Ertz suggests was a collaborative effort between Breughel, who provided the landscape, and Hendrick van Balen and Denis van Alsloot, whom Ertz believes painted the figure of Orpheus and the animals, respectively (K. Ertz and C. Nitze-Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625): Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, Lingen, 2008, II, pp. 766-67, no. 380).

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