Choir of Musical Angels
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Religious |
Date | ca. 1595 |
Dimensions | 25 x 35 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Collaborators | Hans Rottenhammer |
Collectors/patrons | Federico Borromeo |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #321 Ertz 1979, #124 |
Location | Milan, Italy |
Collection | Ambrosiana |
Accession numbers | inv. #70 |
Tags | Resting, Rottenhammer, Borromeo, Putti, Angels, Heaven, Old Testament |
External resources | Ambrosiana |
Pijl and Ertz say that this work must have been done around 1605 as a long-distance collaboration. Borggrefe follows earlier writers in maintaining that the date is around 1595; he calls it Jan's first flower painting. It is not mentioned in the Brueghel/Borromeo correspondence. In his Musaeum Borromeo says it's by Rottenhammer and that Brueghel has "added" flowers.