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Allegory of Spring (Neuburg an der Donau)

Allegory of Spring (Neuburg an der Donau)

Object type Painting
Genre Allegory
Date 1616
Dimensions 56 x 84 cm
Support Copper
Medium Oil
Our attribution Jan Brueghel the Elder
Other authorities Ertz 2008-10, #521
Ertz 1979, #316
Location Munich, Germany
Collection Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Accession numbers Staatsgalerie Neuburg an der Donau, inv. #13709
Series The Seasons
Tags Seasons, Animals, Castle, Van Balen, River, Nude, Putti, Flowers
Van Gool 1750/51, vol. 2, p. 559
Jost 1963, pp. 94, 122, fig. 23
Ertz 1979, cat. #316, fig. 457, pp. 158-60, 245, 290, 323, 384-88, 408, 610
Von zu Muhlen 2004, pp. 75, 166-70
Werche 2004, cat. #A 173, p. 202 ff
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #521, p. 1090
Munich 2013, pp. 322-27
Brussels 1980, cat. #132
Hamm/Mainz 2000-01, cat. #25
Munich 2009, cat. #13
Munich 2013, cat. #69
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1716 Düsseldorf Galerie Düsseldorf, inv. #343 as "door den Fluweelen Bruegel en van Balen"
1730 Mannheim Mannheim Gallery
1822 to 1939 Munich Inv. #2219
1966 Germany Restored by the Federal Republic of Germany
E.A. Honig
June 27, 2015

A variant attributed to Jan Brueghel the Elder on panel (96 x 147 cm) in Munich, Pinakothek, cat. 1922 #628, described as "Flora crowned by nymphs."
A variant attributed to JBI and HvBalen, sold in Berlin, Leningrader Museum, Nov. 6, 1928, #361
Copy of this whole series sold London (Phillips 20.vii.72) #s P33-36.