Artichokes, roses, ears of corn, lilies and other flowers by a vine-covered tree with a monkey, a cat, a porcupine and birds nearby - a fragment

Probably a fragment from a depiction of the Earthly Paradise, comparable with the Creation of Eve in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, inv.no.1097 (see fig.1) (K. Ertz, Jan Breughel der Jüngere, 1984, pp.285/6, cat.no.104, ill.), in which the artist followed prototypes by his father, such as the picture in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Ältere, 1979, pp.605/6, cat.no.291, fig.314).

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fig.1 Courtesy of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt.