Jan Brueghel Complete Catalog | Air: The Rape of Ganymede

Air: The Rape of Ganymede

Air: The Rape of Ganymede

Object type	Painting
Genre	Classical Mythology
Date	ca. 1606
Dimensions	10.5 x 10.5 cm
Support	Copper
Medium	Oil
Signature	BRUEGHEL 160(6?)
Our attribution	Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities	Ertz 2008-10, #504
Location/Most Recent Sale	London, Rafael Valls Gallery, 2003, inv. #10
Tags	Cosmology, Animals, Birds, Miniature, Pendant, Classical, Landscape, Mythological

Ertz 2008-10, cat. #504, pp. 1058-59

Before 1931	London	Collection of Mrs. E. M. Marr
Mar 23 1931	London	Sale, Christie's, Lot #155 (Auction of Marr Collection)
	London	Acquired by Mr. C. Boot, possibly with its pendant "Vulcan's Forge" (see Ertz 2008-10, cat. #400)
Apr 11 1989	London	Sale, Christie's, Lot #48
2003	London	Acquired by Rafael Valls

E.A. Honig

September 5, 2013

Pendant is Ertz #400, Fire: The Forge of Vulcan.