Lot Essay
The landscape, fruit and flowers would appear to be the work of Jan Brueghel II. For similar works of collaboration between Hendrik van Balen and Jan Brueghel II, see K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Jüngere, 1984, pp.78-80 and, for instance, nos.177, 240, 241, 250, 257 and 258