THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Jan Brueghel II (1601-1678)

Details
Jan Brueghel II (1601-1678)

A Garland of Flowers surrounding a feigned Picture of the Assumption

on panel

38¾ x 28 7/8in. (98.5 x 73.5cm.)

Provenance
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 Jan. 1984, lot 127
Literature
K. Ertz, Jan Breughel der Jüngere, Freren, 1984, p.462, no.295, and colour pl.61

Lot Essay

The centre is the work of another hand, considered by Ertz to be either Hendrik van Balen or Frans Francken II. In his opinion the present picture was probably executed in the early 1630s, before 1632 when Hendrik van Balen died

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