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Allegory of Summer (Neuburg an der Donau)

Allegory of Summer (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, #522
Ertz 1979, #317
Location Munich, Germany
Collection Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Accession numbers inv. #13710; currently at Neuburg an der Donau, Staatsgalerie
Series The Seasons
Tags Abundance, Summer, Animals, Castle, Van Balen, Nude, Putti, Landscape, Flowers, Fruit
Van Gool 1750/51, vol.2, p. 559
Jost 1963, pp. 9, 122
Ertz 1979, cat. #317, Fig. 458, pp. 384-88, 408, 610
Werche 2004, cat. #A 174, p. 203 ff
Von zur Muhlen 2004, pp. 75, 166-70, #65
Ertz 2008-10, cat. #522, p. 1090
Brussels 1980, cat. #133
Munich 2009, cat. #14
Munich 2013, cat. #69
Düsseldorf Galerie Düsseldorf, inv. #333 as "door den Fluweelen Breugel en van Balen"
1730 Mannheim Galerie Mannheim, inv. #9
1822 Munich inv. #2120 (as Heinrich van Balen)
1966 Germany Restored by the Federal Republic of Germany
E.A. Honig
May 17, 2014

Seen in Munich. Very clear that Van Balen did all his stuff first and then Brueghel worked around it, landscape is clearly after the figures.