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Allegory of Air (Paris)

Allegory of Air (Paris)

Object type Painting
Genre Allegory
Dimensions 45 x 65 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Signature Signed "BRUEGHEL 1621"
Collectors/patrons Federico Borromeo
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #505
Ertz 1979, #372
Location Paris, France
Collection Musée du Louvre
Accession numbers inv. #1093
Series 1608-1621 Elements
Tags Abundance, Cosmology, Encyclopedic, Animals, Birds, Van Balen, Pendant, Nude, Landscape, Telescope
Ertz 1979, cat. #372, fig. 447
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #505, pp. 1058-61
Rikken & Smith 2011
1618 Ambrosiana Donated by Cardinal Borromeo to Ambrosiana
1796 Paris Seized by Napoleon's Troops, sent to Paris
E.A. Honig
June 27, 2015

The Paris "Allegory of Air" is part of a series of the elements which Jan Brueghel painted between 1608-1621. See Also:

Claudia Insenga
May 5, 2016

Letters to Borromeo, 19 April 1613. “di comandarmi un altro quadro per su servizio cioe l Elemento del aqua o del aria per accompagnare colli altri che VS lll.ma ha di mia mano” (Crivelli pg. 204).

Letters to Borromeo. 5 September 1621. “Enoni una cassa con il quadri de pittura ellemento del ario per mio Sig. et Pron Borromeo” (Crivelli pg.271.

Letter to Bianchi, 5 September 1621. “Enoni una cassa con il quadri de pittura ellemento del ario per mio Sig. et Pron Borromeo” (Crivelli, pg. 271).

Letter to Borromeo, 5 September 1621. “Lioitcelli, et animali son fatto ad vivo de alcuni delli sern,a Enfanto” (Crivelli, pg. 272.

Letter to Borromeo, 5 September 1621. “Io ho differit a posta d finire il quadro del ellemento del’ario commandatome da VS lll.m” (Crivelli, pg. 273).