Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625) and Hendrick van Balen I (1575-1632)

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Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625) and Hendrick van Balen I (1575-1632)

An Allegory of Abundance: The Four Seasons paying Homage to a Goddess
on panel

25¾ x 36 5/8in. (65.3 x 93cm.)
Provenance
Antonio Colombo
Sale, Finarte, Milan, 20 Oct. 1970, lot 5
Literature
K. Ertz, Jan Brueghel der Altere, 1979, pp.389, 607, under no.303, and 608, no.304, and p.380, pl.462

Lot Essay

Another version was sold at Sotheby's, 20 Nov. 1957, lot 130; that picture is described by Dr. Ertz as probably the prime version although he catalogues it as a tentative attribution, while being confident of the autograph status of the present picture (judging both from photographs). He dates both paintings c.1615 by comparison with the 'Paradise Landscape with Noah's Ark', dated 1613 (his no.273)

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